{"id":276198,"date":"2026-01-08T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276198"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:53:15","slug":"bridge-collapses-while-awaiting-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/bridge-collapses-while-awaiting-demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge collapses while awaiting demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Bengia Ajum]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BASAR, 7 Jan:<\/strong> In a freak accident, an old iron bridge collapsed near Tai village under the Leparada district on Wednesday. During the incident, a vehicle used for lifting scrap from the iron bridge fell, resulting in injuries to some workers. According to reports, people present at the site assisted in rescuing the injured persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to this daily, Leparada SP Thuptan Jambey said that there were no casualties in the incident and that the injured workers were treated at a nearby hospital. He also clarified that the Basar-Daporijo road remains open, as the collapsed structure was an old and unused iron bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A new bridge has already been constructed under the Bame-Daporijo Trans Arunachal Highway project and is currently in use,&#8221; the SP said. He added that the old iron bridge was being dismantled after the department had conducted a tender for it in Itanagar. The workers were reportedly dismantling the bridge when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bengia Ajum] BASAR, 7 Jan: In a freak accident, an old iron bridge collapsed near Tai village under the Leparada district on Wednesday. During the incident, a vehicle used for lifting scrap from the iron bridge fell, resulting in injuries to some workers. According to reports, people present at the site assisted in rescuing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bengia-ajum","8":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276198","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=276198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}