{"id":6647,"date":"2019-02-14T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2019-02-14T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:53:39","slug":"15-killed-in-nigeria-election-rally-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/2019\/02\/14\/15-killed-in-nigeria-election-rally-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"15 killed in Nigeria election rally stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>ABUJA, Feb. 14: The death toll from a stampede during an election campaign rally on Tuesday in Nigeria&#8217;s southern state of Rivers has risen to 15, a hospital spokesman revealed Wednesday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\nKem Daniel-Elebiga, a spokesman of the Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, said in a statement that casualty data from the hospital&#8217;s emergency department indicated a total of 15 bodies were brought in dead, including three men and 12 women.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\nHe said 12 injured people rushed to the hospital received timely treatment, and three of them had been discharged.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\nThe deadly stampede occurred Tuesday at a stadium in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers state, as supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) tried to leave the venue following President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s campaign rally there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\nPolice in Rivers state earlier confirmed four deaths in the stampede. Nigeria will hold general elections on Saturday to elect the country&#8217;s president and national assembly members, and elect state governors and state legislators<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>on March 2.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Feb. 14: The death toll from a stampede during an election campaign rally on Tuesday in Nigeria&#8217;s southern state of Rivers has risen to 15, a hospital spokesman revealed Wednesday.&nbsp; Kem Daniel-Elebiga, a spokesman of the Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, said in a statement that casualty data from the hospital&#8217;s emergency department indicated a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}