{"id":4778,"date":"2020-08-25T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:14:11","slug":"more-than-60-survivors-pulled-from-collapsed-building-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/more-than-60-survivors-pulled-from-collapsed-building-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"outer-body\">\n<article class=\"art-body fck ui-rail\">\n<div id=\"content-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4779 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/india-illume.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/india-illume.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/india-illume-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/india-illume-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/india-illume-696x464.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rescue workers search for survivors in the debris after a five-story building collapsed in Mahad in Raigad district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, August 25, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five storey building near a slum district in Mahad, which housed roughly 200 residents, caved in on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne resident was dead and at least 30 were still trapped,\u201d said Bharatshet Maruti Gogawale, a local lawmaker in Mahad situated about 165 km (100 miles) south of Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The building, which comprised of 47 flats, fell almost like a pack of cards, said a police official at the disaster site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local residents and police combed through tin sheets, metal rods and other wreckage in a desperate search for survivors as ambulances rushed injured to nearby hospitals amid heavy monsoon rains and fears of Covid-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cause of the accident was not clear. But building collapses are common in India, usually due to shoddy construction, substandard materials and disregard of regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year, heavy downpours during the June to September monsoon season bring down rain-sodden small and large structures deemed too dangerous to live in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 1,200 people were killed in 1,161 building collapses across India in 2017, according to latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"right-bar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue workers search for survivors in the debris after a five-story building collapsed in Mahad in Raigad district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, August 25, 2020. Photo: Reuters The five storey building near a slum district in Mahad, which housed roughly 200 residents, caved in on Monday evening. \u201cOne resident was dead and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[2528,1123,2490,2440,2526,2530],"class_list":{"0":"post-4778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirsu","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-illume-en","11":"tag-illume-emag-en","12":"tag-illume-magagzine","13":"tag-more-than-60-survivors-pulled-from-collapsed-building-in-india"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}