{"id":2490,"date":"2025-06-26T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:36:05","slug":"29-schoolchildren-die-in-exam-hall-crush-following-blast-in-central-african-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/29-schoolchildren-die-in-exam-hall-crush-following-blast-in-central-african-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Schoolchildren Die in Exam Hall Crush Following Blast in Central African Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Twenty-nine children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crush after a nearby explosion caused panic, a hospital director told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The noise of the explosion, combined with smoke&#8221; caused alarm among the almost 6,000 students sitting the baccalaureate at a school in the capital, Bangui, local radio station Ndeke Luka reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">President Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra has declared a period of national mourning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He also ordered that the more than 280 who were wounded in the crush get free treatment in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Students from five different schools in the capital had gone to the Lyc\u00e9e Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Boganda to sit the baccalaureate exam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The CAR continues to face political instability and security challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Government forces, backed by Russian mercenaries, are battling armed groups threatening to overthrow Touad\u00e9ra&#8217;s administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crush after a nearby explosion caused panic, a hospital director told. The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community hospital. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday24hour.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}