{"id":183244,"date":"2020-01-10T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183244"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:34:26","slug":"us-vs-iran-britain-pm-reveals-who-shot-down-ukrainian-airliner-killing-176-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183244","title":{"rendered":"US vs Iran: Britain PM reveals who shot down Ukrainian airliner, killing 176 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has said that there is now a \u201cbody of information\u201d that the Ukrainian airliner, which crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran, was shot down by an Iranian missile.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson said in a statement on Friday, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is now a body of information that the flight was shot down by an Iranian Surface to Air Missile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may well have been unintentional. We are working closely with Canada and our international partners and there now needs to be a full, transparent investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed that the crashed airliner had four British nationals on board.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said it is now \u201cvital that there should be an immediate and respectful repatriation of those who\u2019ve lost their lives to allow their families to grieve properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK continues to call on all sides urgently to deescalate to reduce tensions in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 bound for Kyiv, its capital, crashed minutes after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The plane plunge to the ground shortly after Iran attacked US bases with over 15 missiles. All the 176 passengers and crew on board were killed.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has said that there is now a \u201cbody of information\u201d that the Ukrainian airliner, which crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran, was shot down by an Iranian missile. Boris Johnson said in a statement on Friday, according to CNN. \u201cThere is now a body of information that the flight was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12298,575,1021,3607],"class_list":["post-183244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boris-johnson","tag-iran","tag-uk","tag-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}