{"id":339951,"date":"2017-12-17T23:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-female-british-diplomat-strangled-in-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:20:48","slug":"presstv-female-british-diplomat-strangled-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-female-british-diplomat-strangled-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Female British diplomat strangled in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>A female British diplomat has reportedly been strangled near the Lebanese capital Beirut.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Rebecca Dykes was found dead near a highway outside Beirut in the early hours of Saturday morning, British outlets reported on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Her body was found without any identity papers on the Metn highway. She reportedly spent her last day with friends at a cafe and left on her own at midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The British foreign ministry released a statement by the family of the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cWe are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. We are doing all we can to understand what happened,\u201d they said. \u201cWe request that the media respect our privacy as we come together as a family at this very difficult time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Police reportedly suggested that she had been murdered and died at around 4 am on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171217\/3da92ba2-03ab-4ded-871d-349f637ff85e.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThe whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news. My thoughts are with Becky\u2019s family, friends and colleagues for their tragic loss,\u201d&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/17\/545964\/Rebecca-Dykes-female-British-diplomat-strangled-in-Lebanon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female British diplomat has reportedly been strangled near the Lebanese capital Beirut. Rebecca Dykes was found dead near a highway outside Beirut in the early hours of Saturday morning, British outlets reported on Sunday. Her body was found without any identity papers on the Metn highway. She reportedly spent her last day with friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}