{"id":37872,"date":"2024-03-04T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37872"},"modified":"2024-03-04T04:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:52:15","slug":"6-pilgrims-killed-in-fire-at-hindu-festival-in-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37872","title":{"rendered":"6 Pilgrims Killed In Fire At Hindu Festival In Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NDTV News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six pilgrims died in Mauritius on Sunday when a fire broke out during a religious ritual to mark a Hindu festival, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blaze erupted when a wooden and bamboo cart displaying figurines of Hindu deities caught fire after coming into contact with exposed electric wires, police commissioner Anil Kumar Dip said on national television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The accident claimed six victims and left seven injured, including one who is in serious condition,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilgrims were travelling on foot to the Grand Bassin lake, which is deemed sacred by the east African island nation&#8217;s Hindu community, ahead of the Shivaratri festival on March 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDTV News: Six pilgrims died in Mauritius on Sunday when a fire broke out during a religious ritual to mark a Hindu festival, police said. The blaze erupted when a wooden and bamboo cart displaying figurines of Hindu deities caught fire after coming into contact with exposed electric wires, police commissioner Anil Kumar Dip said on national television. &#8220;The accident claimed six victims and left seven injured, including one who is in serious condition,&#8221; he said. The pilgrims were travelling on foot to the Grand Bassin lake, which is deemed sacred by the east African island nation&#8217;s Hindu community, ahead&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37874,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37872\/revisions\/37874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}