{"id":18821,"date":"2024-05-08T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/building-collapse-in-south-africa-leaves-three-dead-dozens-trapped\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:53:05","slug":"building-collapse-in-south-africa-leaves-three-dead-dozens-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/building-collapse-in-south-africa-leaves-three-dead-dozens-trapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Building collapse in South Africa leaves three dead, dozens trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Rescue efforts were underway after three people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building under construction collapsed in the South African city of George, authorities said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Twenty-four people were rescued from the site and sent to hospitals, the municipality of George, a coastal city east of Cape Town, said in a statement on Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Fifty-one people remained trapped, according to a statement from the municipality of George.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cSeventy-five members of construction crew have been confirmed on site at that time of the incident,\u201d Western Cape premier Alan Winde said earlier.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            CCTV footage obtained by Reuters showed a cloud of dust as the building crumbled on Monday afternoon.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cI saw one guy was working and then \u2018boom\u2019 and I saw the whole building collapsed\u2026 I\u2019m also traumatised. It is very sad,\u201d Theresa Jeyi, a local councillor, told reporters at the scene.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The provincial government said police and rescue teams with sniffer dogs were on site.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Rescue workers on site were trying to recall where they heard calls from people, George Mayor Leon van Wyk told SABC, while rescue equipment was on its way.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThis is going to be a really lengthy exercise and probably going to go right through the night,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts were underway after three people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building under construction collapsed in the South African city of George, authorities said. Twenty-four people were rescued from the site and sent to hospitals, the municipality of George, a coastal city east of Cape Town, said in a statement <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18821","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\/18821","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=18821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}