{"id":31813,"date":"2021-05-07T03:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/former-maldives-president-injured-in-suspected-bomb-attack"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T04:09:53","slug":"former-maldives-president-injured-in-suspected-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31813","title":{"rendered":"Former Maldives president recovering from shrapnel wounds after bomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation underway after what foreign minister describes as \u2018cowardly attack\u2019 on Mohamed Nasheed <\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Nasheed, who was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives and current parliamentary speaker, was recovering in hospital on Friday after an assassination attempt left him with shrapnel wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Nasheed was hurt when a device attached to a motorcycle was detonated as he got into a car on Thursday evening, an official said. \u201cNasheed escaped an assassination attempt,\u201d a Maldivian government official told Agence France-Presse. \u201cHe is injured, but his condition is stable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/former-maldives-president-injured-in-suspected-bomb-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation underway after what foreign minister describes as \u2018cowardly attack\u2019 on Mohamed Nasheed Mohamed Nasheed, who was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives and current parliamentary speaker, was recovering in hospital on Fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1091,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maldives","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31829,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions\/31829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}