{"id":21535,"date":"2025-10-02T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21535"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:04:14","slug":"deadly-family-drama-shuts-oktoberfest-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21535","title":{"rendered":"Deadly family drama shuts Oktoberfest for a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A German man went on a deadly gun, explosives and arson rampage against his family and then killed himself on Wednesday, sparking security fears in Munich that shuttered the Oktoberfest for seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>A note he had dropped in a nearby letterbox included a vague threat to the world-famous beer festival, leading authorities to close the event while police with sniffer dogs searched the site.<\/p>\n<p>Munich mayor Dieter Reiter then gave the all-clear in the afternoon and the event reopened in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The day of drama started before dawn when the 57-year-old man opened fire on his parents with a self-made weapon. He then set their house on fire, having earlier booby-trapped the building.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he likely killed his 90-year-old father, whose body was seen but could not be recovered from the still-burning house in the city&#8217;s leafy northern Lerchenau district.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German man went on a deadly gun, explosives and arson rampage against his family and then killed himself on Wednesday, sparking security fears in Munich that shuttered the Oktoberfest for seven hours. A note he had dropped in a nearby letterbox included a vague threat to the world-famous beer festival, leading authorities to close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}