{"id":1224,"date":"2015-04-12T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2015-04-12T20:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:51:41","slug":"one-killed-150-hurt-in-kenya-stampede-after-power-cable-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/12\/one-killed-150-hurt-in-kenya-stampede-after-power-cable-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, 150 hurt in Kenya stampede after power cable blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panicked student was killed and 150 more were hurt in a stampede on Sunday when an electrical blast sparked fears of a new Islamist attack on a Kenyan university campus.<br \/>\nSome students jumped from as high as the fifth floor of a hostel at the University of Nairobi campus after the pre-dawn explosion, vice-chancellor Peter Mbithi told AFP.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was total chaos because we thought now it is our turn after Garissa,&#8221; student Michael Njuguna was quoted by Kenyan media as saying.<br \/>\nA shocked Kenya is on edge after the April 2 attack by Somalia&#8217;s Shebab insurgents on Garissa university that killed 148 people, almost all of them students<br \/>\nEducation Minister Jacob Kaimenyi said Sunday&#8217;s explosion occurred at around 5:30 am while students were sleeping on the university&#8217;s Kikuyu campus about 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of the capital.<br \/>\n&#8220;A power cable blew up outside the student hostel. The hostel itself was not affected, but the students thought it was an attack,&#8221; said Mbithi.<br \/>\n&#8220;Some students jumped out,&#8221; and &#8220;there was also a stampede&#8221;, said Mbithi. &#8220;One student died after jumping from the fifth floor.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panicked student was killed and 150 more were hurt in a stampede on Sunday when an electrical blast sparked fears of a new Islamist attack on a Kenyan university campus. Some students jumped from as high as the fifth floor of a hostel at the University of Nairobi campus after the pre-dawn explosion, vice-chancellor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}