{"id":17122,"date":"2019-03-15T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2019-03-15T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:14:16","slug":"bangladesh-cricket-team-escapes-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17122","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh cricket team escapes New Zealand mosque shooting: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team were bussed to the mosque and were about to go inside when the incident happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bangladesh&#8217;s cricket team escaped unscathed after a shooting at a mosque in central Christchurch, an official told AFP on Friday.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team were bussed to the mosque and were about to go inside when the incident happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They are safe. But they are mentally shocked. We have asked the team to stay confined in the hotel,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Player Tamim Iqbal tweeted that it was a &#8220;frightening experience&#8221; and that there were &#8220;active shooters&#8221;.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Entire team got saved from active shooters!!!&#8221; tweeted Tamim Iqbal. &#8220;Frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers.&#8221; Local media said there were multiple casualties at one mosque and that another had been evacuated. <\/em><em><strong>PTI\/AFP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of the team were bussed to the mosque and were about to go inside when the incident happened. Bangladesh&#8217;s cricket team escaped unscathed after a shooting at a mosque in central Christchurch, an official told AFP on Friday. Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}