{"id":142103,"date":"2015-08-10T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=142103"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:41:23","slug":"10-killed-in-stampede-at-india-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=142103","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in stampede at India temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A stampede outside a Hindu temple early on Monday killed at least 10 pilgrims in eastern India with others injured in the crush of up to 150,000 people, a police officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stampede at the Baidyanath Jyotirlinga temple in the state of Jharkhand erupted after pilgrims surged towards the building shortly after the doors opened, the officer told AFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those sleeping in the kilometres-long queue were trampled as others pushed towards the doors, SN Pradhan, additional director general of police in Jharkhand, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMany tried to rush to the head of the queue which led to chaos and as some of them fell, the devotees got trampled,\u201d Pradhan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTen people including one female devotee are now confirmed dead. Another 15 to 20 people have received injuries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stampedes at India\u2019s religious festivals, where a mixture of police and volunteer stewards are often overwhelmed by the sheer size of the crowds, are not uncommon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A stampede on the banks of a holy river killed at least 27 pilgrims last month in Rajahmundry, on the border of the southern twin states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stampede outside a Hindu temple early on Monday killed at least 10 pilgrims in eastern India with others injured in the crush of up to 150,000 people, a police officer said. The stampede at the Baidyanath Jyotirlinga temple in the state of Jharkhand erupted after pilgrims surged towards the building shortly after the doors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":142104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-142103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}