{"id":4256,"date":"2022-08-14T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:24:35","slug":"police-detain-gunman-in-canberra-airport-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/08\/14\/news\/4256\/","title":{"rendered":"Police detain gunman in Canberra airport shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4257\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/canv-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shooting led to airport evacuation and delays and cancelations of flights. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SYDNEY, Broadcasting News Corporation : A gunman fired about five shots inside Canberra\u2019s main airport Sunday, sending passengers fleeing but injuring no-one before he was detained by Australian police.<br \/>\nThe airport was evacuated and locked down, leading to the suspension of flights. Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on the ground inside the terminal as the emergency alarm sounded in the capital\u2019s main airport. \u201cA male has entered Canberra Airport in the departures area. He has sat in one of the areas adjacent to the glass windows,\u201d detective acting superintendent Dave Craft told reporters outside the airport building. \u201cAfter approximately five minutes, this male has removed a firearm from his possession and let off approximately five rounds,\u201d he added. Craft said the crime scene indicated that the man had fired shots at the glass inside the terminal. \u201cThere was no shots directed at people, or persons, passengers or staff,\u201d he said Several apparent bullet impacts were visible on the glass front of the airport, according to images shown by Australia\u2019s public broadcaster ABC. A woman identified only as Helen was quoted as telling a reporter for The Guardian newspaper that she saw a man \u201cshooting into the air\u201d not far from the check-in counter, describing him as being middle-aged and \u201cclean cut.\u201d News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Broadcasting News Corporation : A gunman fired about five shots inside Canberra\u2019s main airport Sunday, sending passengers fleeing but injuring no-one before he was detained by Australian police. The airport was evacuated and locked down, leading to the suspension of flights. Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}