{"id":1483,"date":"2019-09-29T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T20:33:41","slug":"kings-bodyguard-shot-to-death-in-dispute-saudi-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2019\/09\/29\/kings-bodyguard-shot-to-death-in-dispute-saudi-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"King&#8217;s bodyguard shot to death in &#8216;dispute&#8217;: Saudi state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent bodyguard to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman was shot and killed in what authorities described as a personal dispute, state TV reported Sunday, offering few details on an incident that shocked the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes poured in across social media for Maj. Gen. Abdulaziz al-Fagham, with many including images of the bodyguard at work. One included him bending down to apparently help tie the shoes of King Salman, the 83-year-old ruler of the oil-rich kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Others show al-Fagham in the background of events with both King Salman and his predecessor, the late King Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>Details remained vague. While officials posted condolences for al-Fagham, the first official word of his death came in a single tweet by Saudi state television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maj. Gen. Abdulaziz al-Fagham, bodyguard of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, was shot dead following a personal dispute in Jiddah,&#8221; the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>State TV offered no other details. Hours later, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said the dispute saw a friend of al-Fagham shoot and kill him, as well as wound another Saudi and a Filipino worker there. A gunfight erupted as security forces responded to the home that saw the shooter killed and five members of the security forces wounded, the news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The daily newspaper Okaz, while offering no details on the shooting that led to his death, described al-Fagham in a headline as: &#8220;The Keeper of Kings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the kingdom did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent bodyguard to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman was shot and killed in what authorities described as a personal dispute, state TV reported Sunday, offering few details on an incident that shocked the kingdom. Tributes poured in across social media for Maj. Gen. Abdulaziz al-Fagham, with many including images of the bodyguard at work. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}