{"id":538226,"date":"2022-11-24T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=538226"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:12:51","slug":"five-dead-40-injured-in-iraq-gas-tank-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/five-dead-40-injured-in-iraq-gas-tank-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead, 40 injured in Iraq gas tank explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people died and 40 were injured when a gas tank exploded and sparked a fire in a student dormitory in northern Iraq, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The blast hit Monday night when a rooftop gas tank leaked at a building housing the student accommodation and a bakery in the Kurdish city of Dohuk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gas leaked, reaching the students&#8217; rooms, and police arrived to evacuate them,&#8221; Dohuk&#8217;s governor, Ali Tatar, told AFP. &#8220;Unfortunately at that moment, the explosion occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A student, a bakery worker and three policemen who arrived as part of the emergency response were killed, including the unit&#8217;s deputy director, Tatar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people died and 40 were injured when a gas tank exploded and sparked a fire in a student dormitory in northern Iraq, authorities said Tuesday. The blast hit Monday night when a rooftop gas tank leaked at a building housing the student accommodation and a bakery in the Kurdish city of Dohuk. &#8220;The gas leaked, reaching the students&#8217; rooms, and police arrived to evacuate them,&#8221; Dohuk&#8217;s governor, Ali Tatar, told AFP. &#8220;Unfortunately at that moment, the explosion occurred.&#8221; A student, a bakery worker and three policemen who arrived as part of the emergency response were killed, including the unit&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538226","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=538226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}