{"id":2136,"date":"2014-02-10T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2014-02-10T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:18:22","slug":"shooting-in-sakhalin-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/2136\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting in Sakhalin Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sakhalin doesn&#8217;t get in the news much these days, and rarely for reasons unrelated to the oil industry. \u00a0However, friends on Sakhalin posting on Facebook alerted me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-26106584\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">A gunman has opened fire inside a cathedral on the eastern Russian island of Sakhalin, killing a nun and a churchgoer, say reports.<\/p>\n<p>Six other people were wounded in the incident &#8211; most were said to have been shot in the legs and were not critically hurt.<\/p>\n<p>An employee at a private security firm was detained at the scene in the main city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.<\/p>\n<p>The motive of the man, who is said to be about 25 years old, were not clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt there was much of a motive, it sounds like the random act of a nutcase. \u00a0Being rather low-paid work, the average employee of a private security firm in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and is often an ex-conscript unable to find any other type of work. \u00a0It would hardly be a revelation if one of their number had mental health issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was no apparent link to the Winter Olympics taking place in Sochi about 7,500km (4,700 miles) to the west.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes. \u00a0If you want to make a statement about a major international event, getting within 7,500km of the place where it is underway is normally the way to go about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakhalin doesn&#8217;t get in the news much these days, and rarely for reasons unrelated to the oil industry. \u00a0However, friends on Sakhalin posting on Facebook alerted me to this: A gunman has opened fire inside a cathedral on the eastern &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/2136\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}