{"id":7924,"date":"2013-05-20T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ghana-stampede-kills-four-at-at-tb-joshua-s\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T07:03:43","slug":"ghana-stampede-kills-four-at-at-tb-joshua-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ghana-stampede-kills-four-at-at-tb-joshua-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana stampede kills four at at TB Joshua&#8217;s church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghana&#8217;s capital, Accra, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people flocked to the evangelical church for &#8220;holy water&#8221;, which they believed had healing powers, leading to the crush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us were caught by surprise. No-one knew the crowd will be so huge,&#8221; said police spokesman Freeman Tetteh.<\/p>\n<p>The church is run by prominent Nigerian preacher TB Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the wealthiest and most popular evangelical clerics in Africa and his Synagogue Church of All Nations claims it can perform miracles, such as curing blindness.<\/p>\n<p>{Agencies}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghana&#8217;s capital, Accra, on Sunday. Thousands of people flocked to the evangelical church for &#8220;holy water&#8221;, which they believed had healing powers, leading to the crush. &#8220;All of us were caught by surprise. No-one knew the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}