{"id":131941,"date":"2015-07-06T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131941"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:25:47","slug":"iraqi-air-force-accidentally-bombs-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131941","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Air Force accidentally bombs baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Iraqi military plane returning from a raid targeting ISIS positions mistakenly dropped a bomb on a Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, killing or wounded at least 16 residents, an official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There were technical problems with a Sukhoi military plane while it was flying above a residential area in eastern Baghdad,&#8221; Iraqi security spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan told NBC News. &#8220;The bomb fell out and destroyed three houses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that women and children were among the victims but did not specify how many people had been killed. But speaking to Reuters, police in the Ni&#8217;riya neighborhood of eastern Baghdad put the death toll at five.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Maan, the plane&#8217;s pilot was considered one of the best in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The jet had been taking part in airstrikes against ISIS militants, Iraqi television reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government had a formed a committee to investigate the incident and find out what caused the bomb to fall out of the aircraft, Maan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: NBC news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iraqi military plane returning from a raid targeting ISIS positions mistakenly dropped a bomb on a Baghdad neighborhood on Monday, killing or wounded at least 16 residents, an official said. &#8220;There were technical problems with a Sukhoi military plane while it was flying above a residential area in eastern Baghdad,&#8221; Iraqi security spokesman Brig. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-131941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}