{"id":69502,"date":"2025-02-16T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/15\/at-least-15-people-die-in-crowd-crushes-at-new-dehli-railway-station"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:11:44","slug":"at-least-15-people-die-in-crowd-crush-at-new-delhi-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69502","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rush broke out as travellers scrambled to board trains in India\u2019s capital to go to world\u2019s largest religious gathering<\/p>\n<p>At least 18 people have died in a crush at a railway station in India\u2019s capital when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world\u2019s largest religious gathering, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters \u2013 including one last month, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/29\/india-crowd-crush-kumbh-mela-religious-festival-death-toll-injuries-prayagraj\">at least 30 people died in another crush<\/a> at the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/15\/at-least-15-people-die-in-crowd-crushes-at-new-dehli-railway-station\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush broke out as travellers scrambled to board trains in India\u2019s capital to go to world\u2019s largest religious gatheringAt least 18 people have died in a crush at a railway station in India\u2019s capital when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[516,62,3229,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-kumbh-mela","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69502","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69502\/revisions\/69511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}