{"id":101983,"date":"2017-05-11T02:58:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101983"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:58:45","slug":"wall-falls-onto-guests-taking-shelter-in-india-killing-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/11\/wall-falls-onto-guests-taking-shelter-in-india-killing-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall falls onto guests taking shelter in India, killing 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101984\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_India.svg-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101984\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_India.svg-1.png\" alt=\"A building wall collapsed onto guests at a wedding in western India, killing at least 24 people and injuring others, a government official said Thursday. (Photo by Filpro (https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Filpro) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)],)\" width=\"527\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_India.svg-1.png 527w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_India.svg-1-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building wall collapsed onto guests at a wedding in western India, killing at least 24 people and injuring others, a government official said Thursday. (Photo by Filpro<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AWestern_India.svg\"> (https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Filpro) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI \u2014 A building wall collapsed onto guests at a wedding in western India, killing at least 24 people and injuring others, a government official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The hundreds of guests were having dinner or assembling on the outdoor lawns when a strong dust storm blew into the area Wednesday night, forcing people on the lawns to go indoors. When the 80-feet-long (32-meters-long) wall fell, it trapped people inside the wedding hall and a covered shed built along the wall outside, Bharatpur District Magistrate N.K. Gupta told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Another 28 people were injured and have been hospitalized, police officer Anil Tank told Press Trust of India.<\/p>\n<p>Police registered a case of culpable homicide against the building owner and were questioning him, Tank said<\/p>\n<p>A power outage hampered rescue work. It wasn&#8217;t clear if the dust storm was a factor in the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The district is in Rajasthan state nearly 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Building collapses are common in India, where high demand for housing and lax regulations have encouraged some builders to cut corners, use substandard materials or add unauthorized extra floors.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a building being constructed illegally in Mumbai caved in, killing 74 people in the country&#8217;s worst building collapse in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 A building wall collapsed onto guests at a wedding in western India, killing at least 24 people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[18990],"class_list":["post-101983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-building-wall-collapsed","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}