{"id":5562,"date":"2024-07-20T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T09:45:13","slug":"11-dead-over-30-missing-after-china-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/11-dead-over-30-missing-after-china-bridge-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"11 dead, over 30 missing after China bridge collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Eleven people are dead and more than 30 remain missing after a bridge in northern China collapsed amid torrential rains, state broadcaster CCTV reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge over a river in Shaanxi province&#8217;s Shangluo collapsed at around 8:40 pm Friday (1240 GMT) &#8220;due to a sudden downpour and flash floods&#8221;, official news agency Xinhua said, citing the provincial public relations department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nearly 20 vehicles and more than 30 people&#8221; remained missing after the highway bridge collapsed into the river below, CCTV said.<\/p>\n<p>All 11 confirmed victims were found inside five vehicles that had so far been recovered from the water, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p>Images on state TV showed a partially submerged section of the bridge with the river rushing over it.<\/p>\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&#8217;s Baoji city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven people are dead and more than 30 remain missing after a bridge in northern China collapsed amid torrential rains, state broadcaster CCTV reported Saturday. The bridge over a river in Shaanxi province&#8217;s Shangluo collapsed at around 8:40 pm Friday (1240 GMT) &#8220;due to a sudden downpour and flash floods&#8221;, official news agency Xinhua said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","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\/5562"}],"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=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}