{"id":190027,"date":"2022-05-01T00:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=190027"},"modified":"2022-05-01T00:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T18:43:39","slug":"over-20-trapped-39-missing-in-china-building-collapse-prez-xi-orders-all-out-efforts-for-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/01\/over-20-trapped-39-missing-in-china-building-collapse-prez-xi-orders-all-out-efforts-for-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 trapped, 39 missing in China building collapse; Prez Xi orders all-out efforts for rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing, Apr 30 (PTI) At least 39 people were missing and 23 trapped in a six-storey residential building collapse in China&#8217;s central Hunan province, authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to rescue the trapped and injured people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Five people have been rescued and admitted to nearby hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six-story building, which has a floor area of about 700 square meters, toppled at noon on Friday in Changsha city&#8217;s Wangcheng district, state-run China Global Television Network reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescuers were searching for more survivors as 39 people were reported missing. At least 23 have been trapped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The owner of the building has been detained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huang Ming, minister of emergency management, in a video conference on Saturday called for an inspection of work safety to prevent further accidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Related departments should launch a crackdown on illegal and irregular building activities such as unauthorised construction and unauthorised alteration of the main structure to prevent collapses and other similar accidents,&#8221; Huang said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Chinese State Councilor Wang Yong led a team to Changsha to guide rescue and emergency response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Apr 30 (PTI) At least 39 people were missing and 23 trapped in a six-storey residential building collapse in China&#8217;s central Hunan province, authorities said on Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to rescue the trapped and injured people. Five people have been rescued and admitted to nearby hospitals. The six-story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}