{"id":10043,"date":"2025-03-20T05:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:28:20","slug":"deadly-end-to-year-1403-in-iran-21-killed-thousands-injured-during-last-wednesday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/03\/20\/deadly-end-to-year-1403-in-iran-21-killed-thousands-injured-during-last-wednesday-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly end to year 1403 in Iran; 21 killed, thousands injured during last Wednesday of year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Health officials in Iran have reported that as a result of celebrations marking the end of the year, particularly during &#8220;Chaharshanbe Suri,&#8221; 21 people have been killed and 6,914 others injured in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ILNA, an Iranian news agency, quoted Babak Yektaparast, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, on Wednesday as saying, that over 1,700 individuals suffered burns, 258 had limbs amputated, and more than 1,800 others sustained eye injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that West and East Azerbaijan provinces and the capital, Tehran, recorded the highest number of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaharshanbe Suri is a cultural tradition in Iran celebrated on the last Wednesday of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Videos shared on social media from these celebrations show people dancing and celebrating in the streets&nbsp;at&nbsp;night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Health officials in Iran have reported that as a result of celebrations marking the end of the year, particularly during &#8220;Chaharshanbe Suri,&#8221; 21 people have been killed and 6,914 others injured in the country. ILNA, an Iranian news agency, quoted Babak Yektaparast, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, on Wednesday as saying, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}