{"id":264741,"date":"2019-02-08T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=264741"},"modified":"2019-02-08T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:39:10","slug":"ethiopian-groom-best-man-die-after-grenade-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/264741","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian groom, best man die after grenade explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grenade explosion killed a groom and his best man on Tuesday\u00a0in a village in the South Wollo Zone, Amhara region.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred after the grenade, which belonged to the groom, went off after the man&#8217;s 10-day traditional honeymoon celebration. The best man was reportedly\u00a0entertaining the newlyweds when the incident happened. However, the bride was not present.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nigatu Tameme, the deputy commander of the police in Borena district, the groom was illegally in possession of the grenade.<\/p>\n<p>The groom has been identified as 25-year-old Mohammed Hassan Mohammed and his best man was 24-year-old Bogale Sebsibe Abera.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently unclear what triggered the grenade explosion. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-47147598\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grenade explosion killed a groom and his best man on Tuesday\u00a0in a village in the South Wollo Zone, Amhara region. The blast occurred after the grenade, which belonged to the groom, went off after the man&#8217;s 10-day traditional honeymoon celebration. The best man was reportedly\u00a0entertaining the newlyweds when the incident happened. However, the bride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":264744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/istockphoto-944685392-612x612.jpg?fit=612%2C408&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16S1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264745,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264741\/revisions\/264745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}