{"id":13314,"date":"2026-01-09T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:48:06","slug":"waterloo-students-killed-hurt-in-crash-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13314\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo students killed, hurt in crash in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The Waterloo community is raising money for a local family that suffered a tragic crash during a family vacation in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The DeLeon family is stuck in Kenya after the January 4 road accident killed two of their children and left one in critical condition in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Emmanuel, an 8th grader at Hoover Middle School, and his younger brother, Kairo, passed away at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Njeri, their older sister, is in an Intensive Care Unit in Kenya. She is a junior at West High.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-the-deleons-christopher-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-the-deleons-christopher-family\">GoFundMe<\/a> is fundraising for parents Leah and Christopher to cover funeral and hospital expenses.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-the-deleons-christopher-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Emmanuel and Kairo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CCCILQLQYJHYTCQNJIBM5JU7XM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a>Emmanuel and Kairo(GoFundMe)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The Waterloo community is raising money for a local family that suffered a tragic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9095,80,9094,9093,9098,9097,9096,9099],"class_list":{"0":"post-13314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-hoover-middle-school-student","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-students","11":"tag-waterloo","12":"tag-waterloo-student-dies","13":"tag-waterloo-students","14":"tag-west-high-student","15":"tag-west-high-student-injured"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}