{"id":295132,"date":"2023-08-23T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=295132"},"modified":"2023-08-23T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:02:30","slug":"wagner-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/wagner-boss\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wagner boss <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yevgeny_Prigozhin\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yevgeny_Prigozhin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/a> was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia&#8217;s civil aviation authority has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapour trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tass news agency said the plane caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\">More Stories Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia&#8217;s civil aviation authority has said. Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow. The jet, which was flying from Moscow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":295133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Wagner-leader-scaled.webp?fit=2560%2C1401&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295134,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295132\/revisions\/295134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}