{"id":428966,"date":"2024-07-02T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=428966"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:46:10","slug":"at-least-27-dead-in-stampede-during-religious-gathering-in-northern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/at-least-27-dead-in-stampede-during-religious-gathering-in-northern-india\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 27 dead in stampede during religious gathering in northern India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 27 people have died in a stampede during a religious event in Hathras district of India\u2019s Uttar Pradesh state, officials and local media reports say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received 27 bodies so far \u2026 bodies are still coming,\u201d the northern state\u2019s senior medical officer Ram Mohan Tiwari told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds had gathered to celebrate the Hindu deity Shiva at a village in Hathras, some 140km (87 miles) southeast of New Delhi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3020153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3020153\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3020153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-02-at-2.37.01%E2%80%AFPM-copy-1719920291.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Crowd outside hospital\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3020153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Crowds had gathered to celebrate the Hindu deity Shiva at a village in Hathras [Screengrab\/Reuters]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police in Hathras said the dead included 23 women, three children and a man. He said more than 150 people were admitted to hospitals after the incident, adding the death toll may rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany injured have also been admitted,\u201d Umesh Kumar Tripathi, the district\u2019s chief medical officer, told reporters. \u201cThe primary reason is a stampede during a religious event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstructions have been given to the concerned officials to conduct relief and rescue operations on war footing and to provide proper treatment to the injured,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly accidents are common at places of worship in India during major religious festivals.<\/p>\n<p>At least 112 people were killed in 2016 after a huge explosion caused by a banned fireworks display at a temple marking the Hindu New Year. The explosion ripped through concrete buildings and ignited a fire at a temple complex in Kerala state, where thousands had gathered.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Al Jazeera &amp; Agencies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 27 people have died in a stampede during a religious event in Hathras district of India\u2019s Uttar Pradesh state, officials and local media reports say. \u201cWe have received 27 bodies so far \u2026 bodies are still coming,\u201d the northern state\u2019s senior medical officer Ram Mohan Tiwari told the AFP news agency on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":428967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428968,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428966\/revisions\/428968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}