{"id":475,"date":"2024-11-11T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/repeated-gunshots-fired-on-live-tv-as-ex-lawmaker-shot-by-assassins\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T08:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:34:22","slug":"repeated-gunshots-fired-on-live-tv-as-ex-lawmaker-shot-by-assassins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/repeated-gunshots-fired-on-live-tv-as-ex-lawmaker-shot-by-assassins\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeated gunshots fired on live TV as ex-lawmaker shot by assassins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atiq Ahmed, a former lawmaker in India&#8217;s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday. BLN&#8217;s Vedika Sud reports&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2023\/04\/18\/india-ex-lawmaker-atiq-ahmed-assassination-sud-pkg-contd-ovn-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiq Ahmed, a former lawmaker in India&#8217;s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday. BLN&#8217;s Vedika Sud reports&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88,87],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gunshots","tag-repeated"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}