{"id":65324,"date":"2024-07-03T03:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/people-crushed-to-death-at-hindu-gathering-in-northern-india"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T00:35:25","slug":"at-least-87-killed-in-crush-at-hindu-gathering-in-northern-india-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65324","title":{"rendered":"At least 116 killed in crush at Hindu gathering in northern India, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of Delhi<\/p>\n<p>At least 116 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in a crowd crush at a Hindu religious gathering in northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a>, and more than 80 others were injured, local police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The crush happened when thousands of devotees tried to leave a prayer meeting, or satsang, with a local religious leader in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh state. \u201cThe attendees were exiting the venue when a dust storm blinded their vision, leading to a melee and the subsequent tragic incident,\u201d Chaitra V, a divisional commissioner of Aligarh city in Uttar Pradesh, told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/people-crushed-to-death-at-hindu-gathering-in-northern-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of DelhiAt least 116 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in a cro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65324\/revisions\/65330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}