{"id":840,"date":"2010-02-26T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/cc1bf1dea13a675b04131961df235dfc#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-02-26T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:35:00","slug":"fifteen-dead-in-timbuktu-mosque-stampede-police-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/fifteen-dead-in-timbuktu-mosque-stampede-police-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen dead in Timbuktu mosque stampede &#8211; police (Reuters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening was Maoulid (Mawlid) the celebration of the Prophet&#039;s birth that is a carnival like holiday across West Africa.  Sadly, construction barriers near Timbuktu&#039;s famous Djingareyber mosque caused crowds that resulted in a panic and stampede.  Police say 15 people, including two children, were killed and that another 41 people were injured.   &quot;Every year for Maouloud people come to the grand mosque, but this year construction blocked some of the roads,&quot; said Imam Abdramane ben Effayouti. &quot;People took to narrow alleys, there was jostling, and the tragedy occurred.&quot;  Very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening was Maoulid (Mawlid) the celebration of the Prophet&#039;s birth that is a carnival like holiday across West Africa.  Sadly, construction barriers near Timbuktu&#039;s famous Djingareyber mosque caused crowds that resulted in a panic and stampede.  Police say 15 people, including two children, were killed and that another 41 people were injured.   &quot;Every year for Maouloud people come to the grand mosque, but this year construction blocked some of the roads,&quot; said Imam Abdramane ben Effayouti. &quot;People took to narrow alleys, there was jostling, and the tragedy occurred.&quot;  Very sad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/fifteen-dead-in-timbuktu-mosque-stampede-police-reuters\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,174],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}