{"id":14211,"date":"2024-12-20T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T07:56:06","slug":"5-dead-as-chemical-laden-truck-collides-with-vehicles-in-west-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/5-dead-as-chemical-laden-truck-collides-with-vehicles-in-west-india\/","title":{"rendered":"5 dead as chemical-laden truck collides with vehicles in west India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least five persons died and over 35 were injured after a truck carrying a chemical substance hit other vehicles in India&#8217;s western state of Rajasthan early on Friday, confirmed a local police.<\/p>\n<p>The mishap occurred on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway near the Bhankrota area. There were a couple of petrol pumps in the immediate vicinity of the site of the mishap, which were fortunately safe.<br \/>\nThe injured, many of whom were in serious condition, were rushed to a government hospital in the state capital city of Jaipur. The death toll was feared to rise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around 24-25 people have been admitted to the ICU. More people are coming. Many people have been injured in the incident. It is a severe accident,&#8221; media reports quoted SMS Medical College Principal Deepak Maheshwari as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The fire engulfed nearly 40 vehicles, including trucks and private cars. Fire tenders faced a tough task in dousing the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma reached the hospital where the injured were admitted. He said all possible efforts were being made to carry out the rescue and relief work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five persons died and over 35 were injured after a truck carrying a chemical substance hit other vehicles in India&#8217;s western state of Rajasthan early on Friday, confirmed a local police. The mishap occurred on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway near the Bhankrota area. There were a couple of petrol pumps in the immediate vicinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14213,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions\/14213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}