{"id":63587,"date":"2025-03-31T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63587"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:00:10","slug":"gombe-stampede-kills-two-children-at-eid-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/31\/gombe-stampede-kills-two-children-at-eid-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Gombe: Stampede Kills Two Children at Eid Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A stampede at the Gombe main Eid Ground on Sunday claimed the lives of two children and left 20 others injured as worshippers rushed to exit after prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The Gombe State Police Command confirmed the incident, attributing it to overcrowding and inadequate exit access.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s spokesperson, Buhari Abdullahi, stated that the chaos erupted around 10:45 a.m. as a large crowd, mostly women and children, tried to leave under intense heat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, a four-year-old boy and a six-month-old baby girl lost their lives while receiving treatment,&#8221; Abdullahi said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged managers of Eid prayer grounds to keep all entrance and exit gates open to prevent similar tragedies in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A stampede at the Gombe main Eid Ground on Sunday claimed the lives of two children and left 20 others injured as worshippers rushed to exit after prayers. The Gombe State Police Command confirmed the incident, attributing it to overcrowding and inadequate exit access. The Command\u2019s spokesperson, Buhari Abdullahi, stated that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63587","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\/63587","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=63587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63589,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63587\/revisions\/63589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}