{"id":343783,"date":"2025-01-11T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=343783"},"modified":"2025-01-11T09:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:12:40","slug":"death-toll-from-stampede-incident-at-the-great-umayyad-mosque-rises-to-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=343783","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from stampede incident at the Great Umayyad Mosque rises to 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- the death toll from the stampede incident on Friday at the Great Umayyad Mosque rose to 4 and 16 injuries, Director of Damascus Health Department, Dr. Muhammad Akram Maatouq said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities were trying to determine the causes of the incident and will hold those responsible accountable, Damascus Governor Maher Marwan told SANA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stampede, according to the statement, was caused by overcrowding at a civilian-organized event inside the mosque.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reem Abdulhameed\/Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- the death toll from the stampede incident on Friday at the Great Umayyad Mosque rose to 4 and 16 injuries, Director of Damascus Health Department, Dr. Muhammad Akram Maatouq said in a statement. Authorities were trying to determine the causes of the incident and will hold those responsible accountable, Damascus Governor Maher Marwan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":343784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343783"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343785,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343783\/revisions\/343785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/343784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}