{"id":315643,"date":"2023-08-26T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=315643"},"modified":"2023-08-26T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:43:47","slug":"madagascar-at-least-12-killed-in-stampede-at-indian-ocean-island-game-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=315643","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar: At least 12 killed in stampede at Indian Ocean Island Game opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antananarivo, SANA-A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar&#8217;s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has killed at least 12 and left around 80 injured, the country&#8217;s prime minister has said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Videos shared on social media showed Red Cross workers caring for dozens of injured people next to the athletics track.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sky News reported that Prime Minister Christian Ntsay had said 11 of the injured were in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was not immediately clear what caused the stampede at the 41,000 capacity Mahamasina stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;An unfortunate event happened. There was a stampede at the entrance. There were a lot of injuries. We will observe a few seconds of silence because compatriots have died when they wanted to enter,&#8221; President Andry Rajoelina told the crowd in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the silence, the ceremony continued with a laser show and fireworks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antananarivo, SANA-A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar&#8217;s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has killed at least 12 and left around 80 injured, the country&#8217;s prime minister has said. Videos shared on social media showed Red Cross workers caring for dozens of injured people next to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":315645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315646,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315643\/revisions\/315646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}