{"id":1862,"date":"2024-07-20T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2024-07-20T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T08:01:23","slug":"china-bridge-collapse-kills-11-after-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/07\/20\/china-bridge-collapse-kills-11-after-heavy-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bridge Collapse kills 11 After Heavy Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Eleven people were killed when a bridge in <a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/\">northern China<\/a> collapsed amid torrential rains, state news agency Xinhua reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge in Shaanxi province\u2019s Shangluo collapsed at around 8:40 pm Friday (1240 GMT) \u201cdue to a sudden downpour and flash floods\u201d, Xinhua said, citing the provincial public relations department.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue operations were under way Saturday morning, according to Xinhua, with five vehicles so far recovered from the water.<\/p>\n<p>Images on state television CCTV showed a partially submerged section of the bridge with the river rushing over it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"show360playvid\" class=\"360playvidUnit\">\n<div class=\"cleanslate360pv\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Large portions of northern and central China have been battered since Tuesday by rains that have caused flooding and significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, state media reported at least five people dead and eight missing after the rains sparked flooding and mudslides in Shaanxi\u2019s Baoji city.<\/p>\n<p>China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains across the east and south coming as much of the north has sweltered in successive heat waves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven people were killed when a bridge in northern China collapsed amid torrential rains, state news agency Xinhua reported Saturday. The bridge in Shaanxi province\u2019s Shangluo collapsed at around 8:40 pm Friday (1240 GMT)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}