{"id":14096,"date":"2014-04-25T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/14-crushed-to-death-at-drcongo-music-festival\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T08:41:00","slug":"14-crushed-to-death-at-drcongo-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/14-crushed-to-death-at-drcongo-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Crushed to Death at DRCongo Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5498 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7787.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Several people died in a stampede in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday during a tribute festival for the late African singer King Kester Emeneya}<\/p>\n<p>{{At least 14 people died when a power cut caused a crush at a crowded music festival in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, a local government spokesman said.}}<\/p>\n<p>The crush occurred in Kikwit, around 500 km (300 miles) from the capital Kinshasa, on the first night of a festival organized to commemorate famous Congolese rumba musician King Kester Emeneya, who died 40 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around 2 am (9 p.m. ET) there was a blackout in the stadium. At that time the concert was completely full,&#8221; said Claude Malela, a spokesman for the local government and organizer of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people tried to leave there was a crush. We have counted 14 dead and 13 injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An official at the interior ministry who asked not to be named said there were fears the death toll could eventually be as high as around 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Several people died in a stampede in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday during a tribute festival for the late African singer King Kester Emeneya} {{At least 14 people died when a power cut caused a crush at a crowded music festival in Democratic Republic of Congo early on Friday, a local government spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051861,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14096.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}