{"id":1118618,"date":"2022-06-11T19:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/victims-receive-another-donation-from-cameroon-players\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T19:21:14","slug":"victims-receive-another-donation-from-cameroon-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/victims-receive-another-donation-from-cameroon-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims receive another donation from Cameroon players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-11_091523845-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Officials said around 50,000 people tried to attend the match on Monday\" title=\"Officials said around 50,000 people tried to attend the match on Monday\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officials said around 50,000 people tried to attend the match on Monday<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s national football team has handed over a cheque for $80,700 (\u00a365,500) to the victims of the stadium crush in the capital Yaound\u00e9 during this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Eight people, including a six-year-old child, died while trying to enter the Olemb\u00e9 stadium to watch a match between the home nation and Comoros, according to the government.<\/p>\n<p>It says 38 other people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The players during the competition donated their knockout stages bonuses to the victims of the stampede.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Each Cameroon player received $85,000 (\u00a363,000) for reaching the knockout rounds of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s sports minister blamed the tragedy on a \u201creckless\u201d decision to open a gate in the face of a \u201cflood of people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government has already handed out $143,000 in compensation to the victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pOGOjUB4n-k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ill-Equipped Facility: Nkoranza St. Theresa\u2019s Hospital operates with outmoded equipment (10-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pOGOjUB4n-k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said around 50,000 people tried to attend the match on Monday Cameroon\u2019s national football team has handed over a cheque for $80,700 (\u00a365,500) to the victims of the stadium crush in the capital Yaound\u00e9 during this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Eight people, including a six-year-old child, died while trying to enter the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[711,6729,190,4205,2909],"class_list":["post-1118618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cameroon","tag-donation","tag-players","tag-receive","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}