{"id":184010,"date":"2023-01-01T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=184010"},"modified":"2023-01-01T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:57:10","slug":"nine-to-death-in-ugandan-new-year-firework-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/nine-to-death-in-ugandan-new-year-firework-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine to death in Ugandan New Year firework crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184011\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ugandaafp-1176981-1672571328.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ugandaafp-1176981-1672571328.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ugandaafp-1176981-1672571328-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ugandaafp-1176981-1672571328-696x392.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year\u2019s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda\u2019s capital, police said.<br \/>\nPeople started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the force said.<br \/>\n\u201cVery many people got stuck as they were entering in large numbers to see fireworks. In doing so, many people suffocated to death. So far nine people are confirmed dead,\u201d the police statement read.<br \/>\nPeople had been celebrating the New Year at the mall which is on a highway linking Kampala to Entebbe airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year\u2019s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda\u2019s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the force said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184012,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184010\/revisions\/184012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}