{"id":9199,"date":"2019-09-11T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:02:45","slug":"iraq-stampede-kills-31-pilgrims-at-ashura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9199","title":{"rendered":"Iraq stampede kills 31 Pilgrims at Ashura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 31 people have been killed in a stampede during commemorations for the Muslim holy day of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said the toll could rise even further, as another 100 people were injured including 10 in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly rush began when part of a walkway collapsed during a procession, causing mass panic among worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>Shia pilgrims converge on Karbala annually to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, Prophet Mohammad&#8217;s grandson.<\/p>\n<p>Ashura commemorates the martyrdom in battle of the Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in 680AD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 31 people have been killed in a stampede during commemorations for the Muslim holy day of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala, officials say. Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr said the toll could rise even further, as another 100 people were injured including 10 in critical condition. The deadly rush began when part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions\/9201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}