{"id":33059,"date":"2017-03-07T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eight-killed-in-zambian-food-aid-stampede\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:34:30","slug":"eight-killed-in-zambian-food-aid-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eight-killed-in-zambian-food-aid-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in Zambian food aid stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least eight people were killed in a stampede on Monday as thousands of desperate Zambians scrambled for food handouts, police said.}<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the capital Lusaka at a public sports centre where a church was handing out food to about 35,000 people, mostly from the city&#8217;s impoverished slums.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eight people died while 28 others were injured in a stampede which happened at the Olympic Youth Development Centre around 6:00 am Monday as a crowd jostled to enter the premises,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victims are among the 35,000 which the group had invited for prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police ordered the church that had been distributing the corn meal, cooking oil and salt, to halt the handouts.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people, however, stayed there hoping the organisers would resume distribution, with some saying that the country&#8217;s president should ask millers to cut meal prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot afford to buy it, so we come here,&#8221; Memory Chisanga, a 64-year-old woman, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the church declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Africa has been hit by a severe drought since 2015, and food prices in Zambia have risen steeply.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18655 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix-24.jpg\" alt=\"People receive food aid in Minkammen, South Sudan. Eight people died while 28 others were injured in a food aid stampede in Lusaka, Zambia on March 6, 2017.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least eight people were killed in a stampede on Monday as thousands of desperate Zambians scrambled for food handouts, police said.} The incident occurred in the capital Lusaka at a public sports centre where a church was handing out food to about 35,000 people, mostly from the city&#8217;s impoverished slums. &#8220;Eight people died while [&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":[100],"byline":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33059","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=33059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33059"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33059"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}