{"id":16657,"date":"2020-01-25T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2020-01-25T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T10:14:23","slug":"all-emiratis-in-houston-safe-uae-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/01\/25\/all-emiratis-in-houston-safe-uae-consulate\/","title":{"rendered":"All Emiratis in Houston safe: UAE Consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UAE Consulate in Houston has confirmed that all Emiratis in Houston are safe following the explosion that occurred in a factory in the city on dawn Friday, advising all UAE citizens in Houston to register for the online &#8221;Tawajudi&#8221; service service via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; website or its smart application and to communicate with the Consulate in the event of an emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All UAE citizens staying in Houston for the purpose of treatment or study were not present in the area hit by the blast,&#8221; said the Consulate, warning Emiratis in the US to stay away from the explosion zone in order to ensure their safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion occurred on the outskirts of the city of Houston, 35 kilometers away from where Emirati citizens are staying, the Consulate explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It cited local authorities&#8217; reports that indicated that it was a propylene gas explosion and pointed to a leak of some kind at the manufacturing site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE Consulate in Houston has confirmed that all Emiratis in Houston are safe following the explosion that occurred in a factory in the city on dawn Friday, advising all UAE citizens in Houston to register for the online &#8221;Tawajudi&#8221; service service via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; website or its smart application and to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16657","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\/16657","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=16657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}