{"id":3383,"date":"2018-04-21T21:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2018-04-21T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T21:03:40","slug":"toy-drone-shot-down-outside-saudi-royal-palace-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/21\/toy-drone-shot-down-outside-saudi-royal-palace-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire\/","title":{"rendered":"TOY DRONE SHOT DOWN OUTSIDE SAUDI ROYAL PALACE OFFICIAL SAYS AFTER REPORTS OF GUNFIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3388\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089.jpg 645w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089-560x299.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089-260x139.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/04\/645x344-toy-drone-shot-down-outside-royal-palace-saudi-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire-1524342615089-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Daily Sabah<\/p>\n<p>A toy drone flying without an authorization was shot down outside the Saudi Royal Palace in Riyadh&#8217;s Khozama district late Saturday, a senior Saudi official said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Riyadh police said forces at a checkpoint in the Khozama district identified the drone and &#8220;dealt with it according to their orders&#8221;, state news said without specifying if there were any injuries or damage.<\/p>\n<p>Several videos published on Twitter purportedly showed gunfire outside the palace, while several sources close to the Saudi officials said the incident has taken place after a drone came too close to the palace and was shot down.<\/p>\n<p>Other reports claimed the incident was a part of a palace coup attempt and that King Salman bin Abdulaziz was evacuated from the palace to a military base. The claims were later denied by Saudi sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Daily Sabah A toy drone flying without an authorization was shot down outside the Saudi Royal Palace in Riyadh&#8217;s Khozama district late Saturday, a senior Saudi official said. A spokesman for the Riyadh police said forces at a checkpoint in the Khozama district identified the drone and &#8220;dealt with it according to their orders&#8221;,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/21\/toy-drone-shot-down-outside-saudi-royal-palace-official-says-after-reports-of-gunfire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TOY DRONE SHOT DOWN OUTSIDE SAUDI ROYAL PALACE OFFICIAL SAYS AFTER REPORTS OF GUNFIRE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}