{"id":14194,"date":"2019-11-12T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=14194"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T04:26:41","slug":"three-performers-stabbed-on-stage-during-play-in-saudi-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/11\/12\/three-performers-stabbed-on-stage-during-play-in-saudi-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Three performers stabbed on stage during play in Saudi capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Yemeni man stabbed three performers during a live play in the Saudi capital Monday, police said, in the first such attack since the ultra-conservative kingdom began easing decades-old restrictions on entertainment.<br><br>The assailant was arrested after state television footage showed him stomping onto the stage in Riyadh&#8217;s King Abdullah Park during a musical performance by what appeared to be a foreign theatre troupe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Security forces dealt with a\u2026 stabbing attack against two men and a woman from a theatre group during a live performance,&#8221; a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the official Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said the man arrested was a 33-year-old Yemeni expatriate and that the knife used in the attack was seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement added the victims were in stable condition but offered no information about their nationality or the motivation of the assailant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Yemeni man stabbed three performers during a live play in the Saudi capital Monday, police said, in the first such attack since the ultra-conservative kingdom began easing decades-old restrictions on entertainment.The assailant was arrested after state television footage showed him stomping onto the stage in Riyadh&#8217;s King Abdullah Park during a musical performance by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14196,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194\/revisions\/14196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}