{"id":519767,"date":"2026-07-01T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519767\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:31:09","slug":"two-people-confirmed-dead-in-mass-mexico-fans-celebrations-after-world-cup-victory-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519767\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people confirmed dead in mass Mexico fans celebrations after World Cup victory | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">At least two people died during massive celebrations in Mexico City as the national team advanced to the next round at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-football\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>, according to the local government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A 19-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man died of asphyxiation, according to the city\u2019s health ministry. Authorities have not confirmed the death of a third person, reported by local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The celebrations came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/01\/mexico-ecuador-world-cup-2026-last-32-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico beat Ecuador<\/a> to record their first World Cup knockout win since 1986, sending the co-hosts into the last 16. More than a million people gathered in the streets of Mexico City, mainly around the Angel of Independence monument, according to estimates by the city government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people died during massive celebrations in Mexico City as the national team advanced to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-519767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}