{"id":18579,"date":"2024-05-01T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/highway-collapse-kills-19-people-in-southern-china\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:46:24","slug":"highway-collapse-kills-19-people-in-southern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/highway-collapse-kills-19-people-in-southern-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway collapse kills 19 people in southern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Nineteen people have been killed after a highway collapsed in China\u2019s Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s state broadcaster, CCTV.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            A section of the express highway connecting Meizhou City and Dapu City in Guangdong Province collapsed at around 2:10 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving eighteen cars trapped, CCTV reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Widely circulated social media videos shot in darkness showed a raging fire beneath where the road would have been and emergency service workers at the scene.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Images taken after daybreak showed cars piled up at the bottom of a ravine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            As of 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, 30 people were receiving medical care in hospitals, and they were \u201cwithout immediate risk,\u201d CCTV said without specifying their injuries.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Guangdong provincial government had dispatched a rescue force of approximately 500 people, the state broadcaster said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Rescue efforts were still underway, according to the update from the local police department.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Southern China has been bombarded with heavy rain in recent weeks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Guangdong province, an economic powerhouse home to 127 million people, has seen widespread flooding, which has forced more than 110,000 people to relocate, state media reported, citing the local government.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The floods have killed at least four people in Guangdong, including a rescue worker, state news agency Xinhua reported Monday. At least 10 people remain missing, it added.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen people have been killed after a highway collapsed in China\u2019s Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s state broadcaster, CCTV. A section of the express highway connecting Meizhou City and Dapu City in Guangdong Province collapsed at around 2:10 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving eighteen cars trapped, CCTV reported. Widely circulated social media videos <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18579","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\/18579","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=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}