{"id":4809,"date":"2014-08-13T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:18:56","slug":"head-of-libyan-capital-tripoli-police-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/head-of-libyan-capital-tripoli-police-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Libyan capital Tripoli police &#8216;assassinated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of police in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been killed by unknown gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>Col Muhammad Suwaysi was shot while leaving a meeting in Tajoura, a suburb in the east of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Two of his colleagues were also taken captive, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been gripped by violence involving militias that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi. Thousands have been forced to flee recent fighting in Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>More than three years after the uprising, Libya&#8217;s police and army remain weak in comparison to the militias who control large parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hard-working man&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The official Facebook page of the National Security Directorate of Tripoli said that Col Suwaysi had been assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>Interior ministry spokesman Rami Kaal told the BBC that the police chief had been in Tajoura for a meeting with local authorities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28760795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of police in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been killed by unknown gunmen. Col Muhammad Suwaysi was shot while leaving a meeting in Tajoura, a suburb in the east of the capital. Two of his colleagues were also taken captive, the interior ministry said. Libya has been gripped by violence involving militias that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,3563,3566,4711,892,2687,3565,257,4694,254,3564,897],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-col-muhammad-suwaysi","tag-col-suwaysi-had-been-assassinated","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-national-security-directorate-of-tripoli","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tajoura","tag-tripoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}