{"id":42,"date":"2017-11-07T00:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T00:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-11-07T02:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T02:06:41","slug":"saudis-prince-mansour-killed-helicopter-crash-near-yemen-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/middle-east\/saudis-prince-mansour-killed-helicopter-crash-near-yemen-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi&#8217;s Prince Mansour Killed In Helicopter Crash Near Yemen Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A senior Saudi prince and seven other officials have been killed in a helicopter crash near the country&#8217;s border with Yemen, state media report.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, was returning from an inspection tour when his aircraft came down near Abha late on Sunday, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It did not give a cause for the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came hours after a major purge of the kingdom&#8217;s political and business leadership.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-corruption body led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, ordered the detentions of dozens of people, including 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of ex-ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts see the unprecedented move as an attempt to cement the power of the heir to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Mansour was the son of Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, a former intelligence chief who was crown prince between January and April 2015, when he was pushed aside by Prince Mohammed&#8217;s father, King Salman, now 81.<\/p>\n<p>Mansour served as a consultant to his father&#8217;s royal court and in April 2017 was among eight young royals appointed deputy governors.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-41881058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prince Mansour was married to Mudhawi bint Musaid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi&#8217;s Prince Mansour bin Muqrin &#038; seven other officials have been killed in a helicopter crash near the country&#8217;s border with Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[16,14,15,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalwives.com\/royalty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}