{"id":46338,"date":"2014-01-18T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=46338"},"modified":"2014-01-18T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:17:00","slug":"18-killed-in-stampede-in-india-46338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/18-killed-in-stampede-in-india-46338\/","title":{"rendered":"18 killed in stampede in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46339\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-46339 \" alt=\"File picture of people killed in stampede in India. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stampede-India-Nationalturk-18-503x360.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stampede-India-Nationalturk-18-503x360.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stampede-India-Nationalturk-18-280x200.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stampede-India-Nationalturk-18.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File picture of people killed in stampede in India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>At least 18 people were killed in a stampede near the Malabar Hill residence of deceased Shia Muslim sect spiritual leader in business capital of India.<\/h1>\n<p>Mumbai, Jan 18\/Nationalturk &#8211; At least 18 people were killed in a stampede near the Malabar Hill residence of deceased Dawoodi Bohra (Shia Muslim sect) spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin in Mumbai, business capital of India.<\/p>\n<p>The Dawoodi Bohra sect spiritual leader Burhanuddin had died yesterday after the cardiac arrest at the age of 102. His body was kept near his Malabir Hill residence in Mumbai for people to pay their last respects to him and his funeral will take place this forenoon.<\/p>\n<p>Dawoodi Bohra is a sect of Shia Muslims.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Stampede took place at around 0130 hours\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAt around 0130 hours, a stampede took place as hundreds of mourners had assembled near Burhanuddin\u2019s residence to pay last respects to him,\u201d official said.<\/p>\n<p>They said scores of people fell over each other, and most of the deaths were caused due to suffocation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said 18 people died in the stampede and 60 others suffered injuries. The injured have been admitted in various hospitals in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018Inquiry will be conducted\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Officials said an inquiry has been launched to ascertain what exactly caused stampede. \u00a0\u201cPreliminary investigations have revealed that stampede happened after the gates of Burhanuddin\u2019s residence were closed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh has admitted lapses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither the police nor the organizers thought of the huge turnout of the people. Eighteen people have died and most deaths due to suffocation. When the gate was closed, there was suffocation,\u201d he said&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were killed in a stampede near the Malabar Hill residence of deceased Shia Muslim sect spiritual leader in business capital of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[63517,63513,2546,11948,63520,63512,1110,63518,56662,63519,63514,2849,63515,11536,63516],"class_list":["post-46338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-business-capital-of-india","tag-dawoodi-bohra","tag-india","tag-inquiry","tag-lapses","tag-malabar-hill","tag-mumbai","tag-mumbai-police-commissioner","tag-preliminary-investigations","tag-satyapal-singh","tag-shia-muslim-sect","tag-shia-muslims","tag-spiritual-leader","tag-stampede","tag-syedna-mohammed-burhanuddin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}