{"id":89629,"date":"2026-05-25T14:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89629"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:13:53","slug":"police-fire-shots-in-air-to-disperse-angry-crowds-at-dr-congo-ebola-treatment-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/police-fire-shots-in-air-to-disperse-angry-crowds-at-dr-congo-ebola-treatment-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Police fire shots in air to disperse angry crowds at DR Congo Ebola treatment centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/b78e\/live\/9dbeb0e0-583f-11f1-9fcc-95002e18ab8a.jpg\" alt=\"Five Red Cross workers in full PPE - white suits and green rubber gloves - walking in a straight line while the one in front is carrying a canister on their back and spraying disinfectant on the ground. They are outside Mongwalu General Hospital and two people are watching them.\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Police in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the bodies of loved ones who had died at an Ebola treatment centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0l22pz6nw6o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Police in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ebola"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ebola-7.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89630,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629\/revisions\/89630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}