{"id":13853,"date":"2018-09-04T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:24:08","slug":"one-dead-many-feared-trapped-in-kolkata-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13853","title":{"rendered":"One dead, many feared trapped in Kolkata bridge collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.1740064447\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least one person has died and several others are feared trapped in India&#8217;s eastern city of Kolkata after a section of a decades-old highway bridge built over a railway track collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The incident\u00a0<span>in Majherhat, southern Kolkata, took place at around 11:30 GMT on<span>\u00a0Tuesday, when a nearly 30-metre long section of the bridge dropped to the ground, the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/03\/casualties-bridge-collapses-india-kolkata-160331085608251.html\">second such incident<\/a><span>\u00a0in the city in less than three years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span><span>More than two dozen people were injured and rushed to local hospitals, police said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to assess if there are people trapped beneath the debris,&#8221; Sovan Chatterjee, the mayor of Kolkata, who visited the accident site, told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p><span>The bridge is reported to be over 40 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a section of an unfinished flyover cutting through Kolkata collapsed, killing 26 people and leaving dozens injured.<\/p>\n<p>An official report later blamed that accident on bad design and poor-quality materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person has died and several others are feared trapped in India&#8217;s eastern city of Kolkata after a section of a decades-old highway bridge built over a railway track collapsed. The incident\u00a0in Majherhat, southern Kolkata, took place at around 11:30 GMT on\u00a0Tuesday, when a nearly 30-metre long section of the bridge dropped to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853","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=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}