(10 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 10 January 2025
1. Aerials of crowds gathering to receive donated food outside Umayyad mosque ++MUTE++
2. Wide of ambulances and crowd in front of Ummayad mosque
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Banaa Bahrie, rescue worker with Syrian civil defense:
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“Our teams headed to a gathering of civilians at the site of the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, where there was a gathering of civilians. Since this mosque has great significance, especially after the fall of the regime, civilians flock to it from all governorates. We were informed of injuries. Our teams went to the location and recovered the bodies of three women and three children, including a seven-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, who suffered fractures as a result of overcrowding.”
4. Various of crowd gathered around truck
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maryam al-Ali, worshiper:
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"You can see the evidence, seeing the crowds here and how everyone is on top of each other that Bashar Assad was starving his people. All of this humiliation for a plate of rice. This is evidence that all these people are well-fed when they are coming here just for a plate of rice.”
6. Various of disposable food packaging
7. Aerial of mosque ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Three women were killed and several injured, including five children, in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Friday, the Syrian civil defense force known as the White Helmets said in a statement.
Dozens of people remained around the mosque as initiatives to distribute food continued despite the deaths.
“Our teams went to the location and recovered the bodies of three women and three children, including a seven-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy” said Banaa Bahrie, a rescue worker with the White Helmets.
An Associated Press photographer at the scene said there was an initiative to distribute food after Friday prayers which caused the swell in numbers.
Security closed the mosque to worshippers even as initiatives to distribute food continued.
AP video shot by Ghaith Alsayed
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