{"id":15892,"date":"2024-02-22T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/bridge-snaps-in-half-in-deadly-cargo-ship-crash\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:47:05","slug":"bridge-snaps-in-half-in-deadly-cargo-ship-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/bridge-snaps-in-half-in-deadly-cargo-ship-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge snaps in half in deadly cargo ship crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            At least five people were killed and a crew member was injured on Thursday when a cargo ship rammed into a bridge in southern China, cutting the structure in half, Chinese state media reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The maritime search and rescue center in Guangzhou said two vehicles fell into the water and three others landed on the vessel after it crashed into the Lixinsha Bridge in\u00a0the southern part of the city in the Pearl River Delta, according to the official Weibo account of Guangzhou Nansha District.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Dramatic photographs of the aftermath showed the bridge split in two with the large stricken ship stationary under the structure. Police vessels were also seen at the scene.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Two people were pulled to safety after the collision, state-run news outlet the People\u2019s Daily reported. A rescue operation is ongoing, it said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Lixinsha Bridge is located in Guangzhou\u2019s Nansha district, a major international shipping hub in the megacity.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Reinforcement work on the bridge due to structural concerns had been repeatedly postponed in recent years, state-run broadcaster CCTV reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            <em>This story has been updated with new information. <\/em>    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people were killed and a crew member was injured on Thursday when a cargo ship rammed into a bridge in southern China, cutting the structure in half, Chinese state media reported. The maritime search and rescue center in Guangzhou said two vehicles fell into the water and three others landed on the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}