{"id":34956,"date":"2023-04-20T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=34956"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:55:21","slug":"yemen-stampede-during-charity-distribution-kills-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=34956","title":{"rendered":"Yemen stampede during charity distribution kills 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 people were killed and hundreds injured in a crush at a charity distribution event in war-torn Yemen on Thursday, Huthi officials said, one of the deadliest stampedes in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The latest tragedy to strike the Arabian Peninsula&#8217;s poorest country came days ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>At least &#8220;85 were killed and more than 322 were injured&#8221; after the stampede in the Bab al-Yemen district of the capital, a Huthi security official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women and children were among the dead,&#8221; he told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.<br \/>\nA second health official confirmed the toll.<\/p>\n<p>An AFP correspondent in Huthi-controlled Sanaa said the incident took place inside a school where aid was being distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people in the poverty-hit country had gathered to receive handouts, according to witnesses.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/121704\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 people were killed and hundreds injured in a crush at a charity distribution event in war-torn Yemen on Thursday, Huthi officials said, one of the deadliest stampedes in a decade. The latest tragedy to strike the Arabian Peninsula&#8217;s poorest country came days ahead of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, which marks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34958,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions\/34958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}