{"id":60423,"date":"2013-12-20T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=60423"},"modified":"2013-12-20T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:57:57","slug":"father-doused-in-petrol-sets-himself-alight-at-st-peters-square-in-vatican-city-while-clutching-piece-of-paper-with-his-daughters-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=60423","title":{"rendered":"Father doused in petrol sets himself alight at St Peter&#8217;s Square in Vatican City while clutching piece of paper with his daughter&#8217;s phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Vatican-City1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60419\" alt=\"Vatican City1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Vatican-City1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Vatican-City1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Vatican-City1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Vatican-City1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A man doused his body with gasoline and set himself on fire in St. Peter&#8217;s Square in Vatican City this morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The motive behind the self-immolation is not yet known, except that the unnamed man carried a piece of paper with the phone number of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old man was ablaze in the square when a passing Jesuit priest ran to his aid to smother the flames with a jacket.<\/p>\n<p>The priest was later joined by two police officers who used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed man was treated at a nearby hospital and transferred to a larger one, with serious burns to the upper part of his body.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place the day after Pope Francis held his final public audience of the year in St Peter&#8217;s Square.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A man doused his body with gasoline and set himself on fire in St&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60423","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=60423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}