{"id":6430,"date":"2016-07-09T10:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:55:25","slug":"scores-of-bodies-from-south-sudan-gunfire-juba-doctor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/scores-of-bodies-from-south-sudan-gunfire-juba-doctor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores of bodies from South Sudan gunfire, Juba doctor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor at a hospital in South Sudan\u2019s capital says soldiers have brought in scores of bodies from gunfire that erupted throughout the city Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor said Saturday that a total count of the dead is not available because soldiers are not allowing doctors to examine the bodies, but he said the morgue is full at Juba Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first word of deaths. The doctor insisted on speaking on condition of anonymity because of fears for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>The gunfire began outside the presidential compound as President Salva Kiir was meeting with first vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar.<\/p>\n<p>The former rivals issued a call for calm as fears grow of a return to civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are reporting quiet streets Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor at a hospital in South Sudan\u2019s capital says soldiers have brought in scores of bodies from gunfire that erupted throughout the city Friday evening. The doctor said Saturday that a total count of the dead is not available because soldiers are not allowing doctors to examine the bodies, but he said the morgue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,4695,5406,880,5407,5408,257,555,1510,254,4700,733],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-gunfire","tag-juba","tag-juba-doctor","tag-juba-teaching-hospital","tag-news","tag-riek-machar","tag-salva-kiir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}