{"id":80594,"date":"2015-10-07T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/more-than-70-killed-in-this-year-hajj\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T20:26:14","slug":"more-than-70-killed-in-this-year-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/more-than-70-killed-in-this-year-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 70 killed in this year Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL(SW):&nbsp;Officials at the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affair (MoHRA) has said that 34 Afghan citizen were killed and 37 more were injured in this year&rsquo;s Hajj.<\/p>\n<p>Dayee-ul-Haq Abed, Deputy Minister told journalists today (Thursday) that out of 34 dead, 10 lost their lives in the crane crash at Mecca. He said that 3 more Afghan citizens were killed due to the stampede at Mina at the Day of Arafat while 5 Afghan pilgrims have not been found yet.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that a total of 24 thousand people from Afghanistan participated in the Hajj this year out of which 8000 have already returned after completing the journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In this year&rsquo;s Hajj, two different incidents that happened at the Grand Mosque and at Mina respectively killed around 876 people and left 1093 more injured.<\/p>\n<p>The first incident happened due to a crane crash and the later was a horrific stampede.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affair (MoHRA) has said that 34 Afghan citizen were killed and 37 more were injured in this year\u2019s Hajj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}