{"id":98351,"date":"2017-04-15T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98351"},"modified":"2017-04-15T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:09:15","slug":"10-killed-in-sri-lanka-as-massive-mound-of-garbage-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/15\/10-killed-in-sri-lanka-as-massive-mound-of-garbage-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in Sri Lanka as massive mound of garbage collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_98352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98352\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/391px-Sri_Lanka_location_map.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98352\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/391px-Sri_Lanka_location_map.svg_.png\" alt=\"Sri Lankan officials say at least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a massive mound of garbage collapsed on part of a poor neighbourhood in the capital during festivities to mark the local new year. (Photo By Uwe Dedering (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],)\" width=\"391\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/391px-Sri_Lanka_location_map.svg_.png 391w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/391px-Sri_Lanka_location_map.svg_-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Lankan officials say at least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a massive mound of garbage collapsed on part of a poor neighbourhood in the capital during festivities to mark the local new year. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASri_Lanka_location_map.svg\">Uwe Dedering (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka \u2014 Sri Lankan officials say at least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a massive mound of garbage collapsed on part of a poor neighbourhood in the capital during festivities to mark the local new year.<\/p>\n<p>The Disaster Management Center said Saturday that 75 people whose homes were damaged were being housed in a nearby school. The centre said army soldiers were still searching the site to ensure that nobody was buried under the enormous heap of garbage.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred Friday night in Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka \u2014 Sri Lankan officials say at least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17923],"class_list":["post-98351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-sri-lankan","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98351","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=98351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}