{"id":8695,"date":"2021-08-03T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:02:58","slug":"pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon on lockdown after shooting nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The Pentagon is on lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired near a platform by the facility\u2019s Metro station, <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\">Report<\/a><\/noindex> informs via <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/myfox8.com\/news\/washington-dc-bureau\/pentagon-on-lockdown-after-multiple-gunshots-fired-near-platform-by-facilitys-metro-station\/\">FOX 8<\/a><\/noindex>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials report several injuries. Three people have been taken to hospitals for further medical attention; one victim was taken by helicopter and the other two by an ambulance, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Defense (DoD) warned people to remain in their offices in an alert sent to all DoD computers and via an overhead announcement, according to FOX News White House Producer Pat Ward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pentagon currently is on lockdown due to an incident at the Pentagon Transit Center,\u201d the Pentagon Force Protection Agency said on Twitter. \u201cWe are asking the public to please avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to WDVM, the Arlington Fire and Rescue Department reported an active shooter outside the Pentagon, with officials reporting several injuries.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Pentagon is on lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired near a platform by the facility\u2019s Metro station, Report informs via FOX 8. Officials report several injuries. Three people have been taken to hospitals for further medical attention; one victim was taken by helicopter and the other two by an ambulance, officials say. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/pentagon-on-lockdown-after-shooting-nearby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon on lockdown after shooting nearby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2232,2710,2709,618],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-lockdown","tag-nearby","tag-pentagon","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}