{"id":42020,"date":"2019-12-21T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42020"},"modified":"2019-12-21T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:22:20","slug":"death-toll-from-india-protests-rises-to-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42020","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from India protests rises to 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi, India (CNN)<\/cite>The death toll from <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/12\/19\/asia\/india-nationwide-citizenship-protests-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">India&#8217;s protests<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/12\/18\/india\/modi-india-protest-citizenship-law-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">controversial new citizenship law<\/a> has risen to 18 after 10 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh, the country&#8217;s largest and most populous state on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Nine of the people died of gunshot wounds and the 10th victim was a child who died in the city of Varasani after being struck with a stone, according to Shirish Chand, an Uttar Pradesh police spokesman.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Three people were killed in protests in the cities of Mangalore and Lucknow on Thursday. Last week, five people died in north-eastern Assam state when protests there first erupted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, India (CNN)The death toll from India&#8217;s protests against the controversial new citizenship law has risen to 18 after 10 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh, the country&#8217;s largest and most populous state on Friday.Nine of the people died of gunshot wounds and the 10th victim was a child who died in the city&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}