{"id":49258,"date":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/953c55e5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"953c55fc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/953c55fc-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"5 killed in failed PNG bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea&#8212;Police shot and killed five gunmen Friday as they attempted to escape a failed bank robbery in Port Moresby aboard a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the robbers were dressed in full military uniform and armed with high-powered weapons, including hand grenades.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired at the men as they took off in the chopper from the roof of the Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter crashed along the downtown waterfront, and the five men were killed in a shootout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea&#8212;Police shot and killed five gunmen Friday as they attempted to escape a failed bank robbery in Port Moresby aboard a helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}