{"id":28894,"date":"2016-09-25T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/thirteen-dead-in-stampede-in-democratic-republic\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T01:08:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:08:20","slug":"thirteen-dead-in-stampede-in-democratic-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/thirteen-dead-in-stampede-in-democratic-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen dead in stampede in Democratic Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A drunken soldier in civilian clothes fired four shots from his gun, causing panic, the local mayor said.}<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen people died when a panic-stricken crowd stampeded in a troubled town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident happened when a drunken soldier in civilian clothes fired four shots from his gun, causing panic,\u201d the mayor of Beni, Jean Edmond Nyonyi, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight people drowned when they threw themselves in the river, four were killed in accidents and one person died of a heart attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fears of gun violence run deep in Beni, which lies in a strife-torn, unstable region of the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 people have died since October 2014 in massacres blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces, a partly Islamist armed group of Ugandan origin.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-one people were killed in Beni on 13 August, a gruesome slaying that touched off mass protests against the central government in Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15264 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/848.jpg\" alt=\"A stampede allegedly started when a soldier fired four shots, has left 13 people dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A drunken soldier in civilian clothes fired four shots from his gun, causing panic, the local mayor said.} Thirteen people died when a panic-stricken crowd stampeded in a troubled town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, local officials said. \u201cThe incident happened when a drunken soldier in civilian clothes fired four shots from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[234],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-the-guardian"],"bylines":[{"id":234,"name":"The Guardian","slug":"the-guardian","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":78}],"contributors":[{"id":234,"name":"The Guardian","slug":"the-guardian","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":78}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}