{"id":301147,"date":"2018-08-04T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301147"},"modified":"2018-08-04T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:19:15","slug":"andhra-pradesh-atleast-10-dead-in-blast-at-stone-quarry-in-kurnool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/andhra-pradesh-atleast-10-dead-in-blast-at-stone-quarry-in-kurnool\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh: Atleast 10 dead in blast at Stone quarry in Kurnool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #383636; background: white; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301148 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/andhra-blast-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/andhra-blast-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/andhra-blast.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/>Atleast 10 people died in a powerful explosion in a stone quarry in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Kurnool district on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #555555; font-size: 14pt;\">According to police officials, the\u00a0explosion\u00a0occurred when regular quarring work was being carried out in the quarry in Haith Belgal village of Alur Mandal in Kurnool district. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #555555; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 20 workers were present at the spot when the gelatin sticks used for blasting the quarry exploded. According to police, few dead bodies were recovered from the spot, whereas the injured were rushed to the hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #555555; font-size: 14pt;\">All the victims are migrant workers, hailing from Odisha and came here for work, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #383636; background: white; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu expressed shock over the incident. He directed district authorities to ensure appropriate treatment to the injured.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atleast 10 people died in a powerful explosion in a stone quarry in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Kurnool district on Friday. According to police officials, the\u00a0explosion\u00a0occurred when regular quarring work was being carried out in the quarry in Haith Belgal village of Alur Mandal in Kurnool district. At least 20 workers were present at the spot when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2920,2072,2014],"tags":[1281,3604,4015,4016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301149,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301147\/revisions\/301149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}