{"id":1946,"date":"2024-05-14T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2024-05-14T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T09:01:38","slug":"14-people-dead-as-huge-billboard-falls-amid-storm-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/14-people-dead-as-huge-billboard-falls-amid-storm-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"14 people dead as huge billboard falls amid storm in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 14 people died and nearly 75 were injured when a huge advertisement billboard fell on them amid a heavy storm accompanied by rains in India&#8217;s southwestern state of Maharashtra late Monday night, confirmed a civic agency official over phone.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the Ghatkopar area of the country&#8217;s financial capital of Mumbai.<br \/>\nVideos on social media showed the huge billboard fell, trapping many cars and other vehicles under it. The billboard was installed next to a fuel station. The victims were taking shelter at the fuel station amid storm and rains when the mishap occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Local police and the fire department workers rescued the people from underneath the billboard. They were later rushed to a local hospital.<br \/>\nAccording to latest reports, the Mumbai Police registered a criminal case against the owner of the billboard which was installed illegally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 people died and nearly 75 were injured when a huge advertisement billboard fell on them amid a heavy storm accompanied by rains in India&#8217;s southwestern state of Maharashtra late Monday night, confirmed a civic agency official over phone. The incident happened in the Ghatkopar area of the country&#8217;s financial capital of Mumbai. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","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\/1946"}],"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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}