{"id":2124,"date":"2009-12-08T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:33:47","slug":"china-students-killed-in-school-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/china-students-killed-in-school-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"China students killed in school stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/china-student.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2125\" title=\"China students\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/china-student.jpg\" alt=\"China students\" width=\"226\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Eight students were killed and another 26 injured in a stampede in a school stairwell in Hunan province, central China, state media have said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 400 students made for one narrow stairway after evening classes when one fell, setting off the crush, China Central TV said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven boys and one girl aged 11 to 14 from Yucai Middle School in Xiangxiang city were reported killed.<\/p>\n<p>Eight other students were being treated in hospital for their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Monday evening but the school was open for classes as usual on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures on China Central TV showed the blood-stained stairway where the stampede occurred cordoned off. The state-run Xinhua news agency said it was less than 1.5m (5ft) wide.<\/p>\n<p>One 14-year-old boy said he saw students below him on the staircase stumble and fall before he too was pushed by those behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight students were killed and another 26 injured in a stampede in a school stairwell in Hunan province, central China, state media have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,107,118],"tags":[3078,3082,3077,3080,3084,3086],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-health","category-hot","tag-china-central-tv","tag-china-student","tag-china-students","tag-china-students-killed","tag-yucai-middle-school","tag-yucai-middle-school-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}