{"id":11880,"date":"2013-05-28T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=11880"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T18:08:53","slug":"saudi-arabias-king-has-been-clinically-dead-for-six-days-and-is-being-kept-alive-by-a-ventilator-say-local-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=11880","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s king &#8216;has been clinically dead for six days and is being kept alive by a ventilator&#8217; say local media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/k11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11877\" alt=\"k1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/k11.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/k11.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/k11-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/k11-366x300.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>The king of Saudi Arabia has been &#8216;clinically dead&#8217; for almost a week and is on life support machines, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been critically ill since last Wednesday, according to a Saudi journalist working in London, and has not been seen in public since.<\/p>\n<p>The 89-year-old monarch is reportedly only alive thanks to being linked up to a ventilator, but his vital organs have stopped functioning.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time the Saudi news service has reported the &#8216;death&#8217; of the king in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Court, which represents the Saudi royal family, has yet to comment on the claims.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year, Saudi state media announced that the King had successfully undergone a back operation to tighten a loose ligament.<\/p>\n<p>Contradicting this, Asharq Alawsat reported the king was &#8216;clinically dead&#8217; almost a week after the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The news service said he had slipped into a coma, but this was rejected by the Royal Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king of Saudi Arabia has been &#8216;clinically dead&#8217; for almost a week and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}