{"id":8123,"date":"2018-05-03T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2018-05-03T20:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:07:03","slug":"30-injured-in-london-jewish-festival-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/30-injured-in-london-jewish-festival-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"30 injured in London Jewish festival explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8124\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jewish-festival-explosion.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish festival explosion\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>At least 30 people, including children, have been injured in an explosion during a Jewish festival bonfire in north London.<br \/>\nVideos recorded at the event on Wednesday night showed a bonfire being lit followed by a large explosion and a fireball engulfing the crowd standing near the fire, Xinhua news agency reported.<br \/>\nTen people were believed to have been hospitalised.<br \/>\nSome witnesses said the explosion was sparked by mobile phones being thrown into the bonfire, a tradition for Lag BaOmer, an annual Jewish festive day.<br \/>\nHowever, Jewish website Yeshiva reported that \u201cit appeared that the explosion was caused by fuel and not smartphones, although there definitely were multiple smartphones placed inside the pile to be burned\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/30-injured-in-london-jewish-festival-explosion\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 30 people, including children, have been injured in an explosion during a Jewish festival bonfire in north London. Videos recorded at the event on Wednesday night showed a bonfire being lit followed by a large explosion and a fireball engulfing the crowd standing near the fire, Xinhua news agency reported. Ten people were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8125,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions\/8125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}