{"id":58230,"date":"2024-12-19T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58230"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T17:19:44","slug":"update-death-toll-rises-to-35-in-ibadan-funfair-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/19\/update-death-toll-rises-to-35-in-ibadan-funfair-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Death Toll Rises to 35 in Ibadan Funfair Stampede\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the tragic stampede at a children\u2019s funfair in Ibadan has risen to 35, with six others critically injured, according to the Oyo State Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a live radio interview monitored by Blueprint, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the updated figures and revealed that seven suspects, including the principal organizer of the event, are now in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can categorically confirm that 35 deaths have been recorded, with six others in critical condition,\u201d Osifeso stated.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO assured the public that investigations into the incident are ongoing and vowed to uncover the circumstances that led to the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The death toll from the tragic stampede at a children\u2019s funfair in Ibadan has risen to 35, with six others critically injured, according to the Oyo State Police Command. Speaking during a live radio interview monitored by Blueprint, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the updated figures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58232,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230\/revisions\/58232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}