{"id":3616,"date":"2013-08-02T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T08:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:18","slug":"un-staff-injured-as-south-sudan-bound-helicopter-crashes-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3616","title":{"rendered":"UN Staff Injured as South Sudan-Bound Helicopter Crashes in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-UN-helicopter.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3617\" alt=\"A UN helicopter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-UN-helicopter-300x184.jpeg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-UN-helicopter-300x184.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-UN-helicopter-220x135.jpeg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/A-UN-helicopter.jpeg 441w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Several people were injured when a helicopter carrying U.N. personnel crashed in the town of Debre Zeit, 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Dina Mufti, the spokesman for Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that multiple people were injured in the Wednesday crash but did not give further details.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq, the helicopter was heading to South Sudan where it was going to be used by the World Food Program in Jonglei. A Russian company, PANH Helicopters, is the owner of the helicopter that crashed, added Haq.<\/p>\n<p>Reports by Ethiopia&#8217;s state-run news agency, citing the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, indicated that two Russian-made helicopters were traveling from Djibouti to Addis Ababa en route to South Sudan.<br \/>\nThe helicopter that crashed was carrying four people, including two pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were injured when a helicopter carrying U.N. personnel crashed in the town of Debre Zeit, 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, officials said. Dina Mufti, the spokesman for Ethiopia&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3616\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}