{"id":185756,"date":"2024-12-02T23:29:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-scores-killed-in-stadium-stampede\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T23:29:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:29:55","slug":"guinea-scores-killed-in-stadium-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-scores-killed-in-stadium-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Scores Killed In Stadium Stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Monrovia \u2014 More than 50 were killed in a stampede at a football stadium in Guinea&#8217;s second-largest city of Nzerekore, according to the <a href=\"abhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdx9lg22k2poout:blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>. The provisional number of fatalities stating dozens had died was updated as local hospitals report being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The deaths happened on Sunday, December 1, 2024, when the referee of a soccer match, which was played in honor of the country&#8217;s military leader Mamadou Doumbouya, made a contentious decision that triggered violence, including stone-throwing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412020409.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 More than 50 were killed in a stampede at a football stadium in Guinea&#8217;s second-largest city of Nzerekore, according to the BBC. The provisional number of fatalities stating dozens had died was updated as local hospitals report being overwhelmed. The deaths happened on Sunday, December 1, 2024, when the referee of a soccer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570169:82722c0396cc9b0d8ebf4210959d5904:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,4715,1124,4327,257,7597,254,9328,14382],"class_list":["post-185756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-scores","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-stampede"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00570169:82722c0396cc9b0d8ebf4210959d5904:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}