{"id":306894,"date":"2018-12-12T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306894"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:22:10","slug":"brazil-5-dead-in-church-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brazil-5-dead-in-church-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: 5 dead in church mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306895 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"265\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A\u00a0gunman shot and killed four people on Tuesday at a church in Brazil before turning the gun on himself, media reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the shooting took place at the Campinas Cathedral in Sao Paulo state as a midday mass was in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the news agency reports, the gunman was armed with two weapons and fired at least 20 times\u00a0before police confronted him and he committed suicide in front of the altar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The motive behind the mass shooting was not known yet, said authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another four people were injured in the incident and were taken to hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0gunman shot and killed four people on Tuesday at a church in Brazil before turning the gun on himself, media reported. According to the sources, the shooting took place at the Campinas Cathedral in Sao Paulo state as a midday mass was in progress. As per the news agency reports, the gunman was armed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[1994,10231,10232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306896,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306894\/revisions\/306896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}