{"id":22801,"date":"2021-03-30T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22801"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:47:18","slug":"magufuli-funeral-stampede-killed-45-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/magufuli-funeral-stampede-killed-45-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Magufuli Funeral Stampede Killed 45 \u2014 Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tanzanian police have now confirmed that 45 people died in the stampede as mourners gathered to view the body of former President John Magufuli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty-seven other people were injured in the stampede in Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police did not give the names of the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police had initially given a death toll of five. They have been under pressure to confirm the actual numbers, more than a week after it happened, after a family confirmed losing six members in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family was part of the thousands who went to bid farewell to their president but never made it back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One man lost his wife, two children, a nephew and a niece. The family&#8217;s maid was also found dead a few days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video footage circulating on social media showed residents entering the stadium using unofficial entry points, as crowds grew larger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Magufuli died on 17 March from what government officials said was from heart complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tanzanian police have now confirmed that 45 people died in the stampede as mourners gathered to view the body of former President John Magufuli. Thirty-seven other people were injured in the stampede in Dar es Salaam. The police did not give the names of the victims. The police had initially given a death toll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[6243,145],"class_list":["post-22801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-dar-es-salaam","tag-magufuli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22803,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions\/22803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}