{"id":230743,"date":"2022-10-31T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=230743"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:02:27","slug":"over-140-killed-in-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/over-140-killed-in-bridge-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 140 killed in bridge collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll from a bridge collapse in Gujarat in India rose to 141 on Monday, officials said. Over 140 people have been killed after a nearly century-old suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat\u2019s Morbi city collapsed on Sunday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue operation is under full swing and nearly 2 more people are missing , said state Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi. Around 177 people have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">19 people are under treatment. Army, Navy, Air Force, NDRF, and Fire Brigade are conducting search operations,\u201d said the Gujarat Information Department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was first reported that over 68 persons lost their lives and the death toll increased to 100 in the unfortunate incident that occurred on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now the death toll crossed 140. There was a rush of people on the bridge, which was reopened for the public just four days back following the renovation work when it snapped around 6.30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was age-old bridge repaired and opened to the public six days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from a bridge collapse in Gujarat in India rose to 141 on Monday, officials said. Over 140 people have been killed after a nearly century-old suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat\u2019s Morbi city collapsed on Sunday evening, officials said. Rescue operation is under full swing and nearly 2 more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[109675,109676,50304],"class_list":["post-230743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bridge-collapse","tag-bridge-collapse-gujarath","tag-gujarath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gujarath.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}