{"id":40077,"date":"2026-07-20T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40077"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:23:28","slug":"teenager-dies-in-spain-after-fountain-collapses-during-world-cup-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/teenager-dies-in-spain-after-fountain-collapses-during-world-cup-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies in Spain after fountain collapses during World Cup celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A 13-year-old died and two people were injured when \u200ba fountain partially collapsed in \u200cwestern Spain in the early hours on Monday, marring mass celebrations of the country&#8217;s \u200bsecond-ever soccer World Cup victory, emergency \u200bservices said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The accident occurred shortly after \u2060midnight in Ciudad Rodrigo, a \u200bwalled medieval city of about 12 000 \u200bin Salamanca province, near the border with Portugal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Hundreds of residents had gathered at the \u200bArbol Gordo fountain in the \u200bcity&#8217;s centre when the upper part of \u200cthe \u2060monument broke loose and struck several people, regional emergency services said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In a statement, Ciudad Rodrigo&#8217;s town hall \u200bexpressed condolences \u200bfor \u2060the victim.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The entire city feels this loss and accompanies \u200bthe minor&#8217;s friends and family \u200bin \u2060their grief. What should have been a celebration of the Spanish \u2060national \u200bteam&#8217;s World Cup victory \u200bhas turned into a tragedy,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35279,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-40077","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The accident occurred shortly after \u2060midnight in Ciudad Rodrigo.","published_date":"","news_description":"The accident occurred shortly after \u2060midnight in Ciudad Rodrigo","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40079,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40077\/revisions\/40079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}