{"id":85507,"date":"2013-10-22T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/drones-kill-rescuers-in-double-tap-3\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:12:06","slug":"drones-kill-rescuers-in-double-tap-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/drones-kill-rescuers-in-double-tap-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones kill rescuers in \u2018double tap\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tara McKelvey<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-24557333\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 22, 2013<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pakistan with the Waziristan region, where the drone strikes occurred, in green. (Credit: Narayanese via Wikimedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Drones are often lauded for their supposed precision and accuracy. Sometimes, though, the machines \u2014 and their human operators \u2014 make mistakes, as two new reports from human rights organisations show.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of missiles struck a tent in Zowi Sidgi, a village in North Waziristan, at dusk on 6 July 2012. A small group of miners and woodcutters had gathered there for dinner, according to Amnesty International&#8217;s Mustafa Qadri.<\/p>\n<p>The tent burned. Friends and family members came running to help. A moment later, there was another drone strike. Many of the people who had come to assist their friends and relatives in the tent were also killed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-24557333\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara McKelvey BBC News October 22, 2013 Pakistan with the Waziristan region, where the drone strikes occurred, in green. (Credit: Narayanese via Wikimedia) Drones are often lauded for their supposed precision and accuracy. Sometimes, though, the machines \u2014 and their human operators \u2014 make mistakes, as two new reports from human rights organisations show. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":85509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85507","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}