{"id":6075,"date":"2015-09-24T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2015-09-24T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:41:11","slug":"more-than-717-people-killed-in-hajj-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-than-717-people-killed-in-hajj-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 717 people killed in Hajj crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6073\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Mina.jpg\" alt=\"Mina\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>At least 717 Hajj pilgrims were killed on Thursday \u2013 and another 850 injured \u2013 in a stampede that took place near the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, according to a Saudi official.<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s Civil Defense Unit has confirmed that at least 717 people had been killed in a stampede in the town of Mina, which occurred as pilgrims performed a ritual in which they threw stones at a structure representing the devil.<br \/>\nCivil Defense Unit officials said operations were still underway to find and treat the injured.<br \/>\nAccording to Saudi officials, some 2 million Muslims from around the world are participating in this year\u2019s Hajj pilgrimage.<br \/>\nWe will have more on this as the story develops.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-than-717-people-killed-in-hajj-crush\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 717 Hajj pilgrims were killed on Thursday \u2013 and another 850 injured \u2013 in a stampede that took place near the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, according to a Saudi official. Saudi Arabia\u2019s Civil Defense Unit has confirmed that at least 717 people had been killed in a stampede in the town &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}