{"id":532845,"date":"2022-10-31T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=532845"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:35:52","slug":"over-60-dead-as-recently-renovated-bridge-collapses-in-gujarats-morbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/over-60-dead-as-recently-renovated-bridge-collapses-in-gujarats-morbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60 dead as recently renovated bridge collapses in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 60 people, many of them women and children, died after a century-old suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi city collapsed on Sunday evening, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which reopened four days ago after extensive repairs and renovation, was crammed with people when it collapsed around 6.30 pm, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 60 persons have died in the tragedy,\u201d Gujarat minister Brijesh Merja told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said there were several women and children on the British era \u201changing bridge\u201d when it snapped, plunging them into the water below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 60 people, many of them women and children, died after a century-old suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi city collapsed on Sunday evening, officials said. The bridge, which reopened four days ago after extensive repairs and renovation, was crammed with people when it collapsed around 6.30 pm, officials said. \u201cAt least 60 persons have died in the tragedy,\u201d Gujarat minister Brijesh Merja told reporters. Eyewitnesses said there were several women and children on the British era \u201changing bridge\u201d when it snapped, plunging them into the water below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}