{"id":606584,"date":"2023-09-26T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=606584"},"modified":"2023-09-26T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:32:19","slug":"zirakpur-4-ft-deep-pit-on-vip-road-claims-bikers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/zirakpur-4-ft-deep-pit-on-vip-road-claims-bikers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Zirakpur: 4-ft-deep pit on VIP Road claims biker\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unattended 4-ft-deep pit alongside VIP Road near Orbit Apartments claimed the life of a biker in the wee hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, Sunil Kumar, 28, a resident of Sector 33-B, Chandigarh, died after his bike fell in the open pit without any caution sign at the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the pit was dug up by Municipal Council (MC) workers two-three months ago in a bid to find manholes buried under the interlocking tiles. MC officials refuted the charge.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, the pit was hurriedly filled with earth, but the spot still remains a safety hazard as loose earth would lead to slippery conditions in case of rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unattended 4-ft-deep pit alongside VIP Road near Orbit Apartments claimed the life of a biker in the wee hours of Sunday. The deceased, Sunil Kumar, 28, a resident of Sector 33-B, Chandigarh, died after his bike fell in the open pit without any caution sign at the spot. Sources said the pit was dug up by Municipal Council (MC) workers two-three months ago in a bid to find manholes buried under the interlocking tiles. MC officials refuted the charge. After the incident, the pit was hurriedly filled with earth, but the spot still remains a safety hazard as loose [&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":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606584","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=606584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}