{"id":307116,"date":"2018-12-17T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307116"},"modified":"2018-12-17T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:15:55","slug":"japan-blast-injures-over-40-in-sapporo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/japan-blast-injures-over-40-in-sapporo\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Blast injures over 40 in Sapporo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/japan-blast-injures-over-40-in-sapporo\/japan-blast\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307117\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307117 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast-605x420.jpg 605w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/japan-blast.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a>A blast near a pub in Japan&#8217;s\u00a0Sapporo\u00a0city injured over 40 people on Sunday night, while the subsequent fire caused one of the buildings to collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the news agency, residents reported a strong smell of gas after the explosion and were seen breaking windows in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cause of the explosion was not known yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The explosion occurred at around 8.30 p.m. JST, news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 20 fire engines were rushed to the spot immediately to douse the flames as shattered glass from the windows lined the streets in the aftermath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Firefighters and police worked to get the site in the city&#8217;s Toyohira ward under control, fighting flames and smoke, and warned people in the neighbourhood of the possibility of another explosion, the news agency reported<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Investigation into the matter is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast near a pub in Japan&#8217;s\u00a0Sapporo\u00a0city injured over 40 people on Sunday night, while the subsequent fire caused one of the buildings to collapse. According to the news agency, residents reported a strong smell of gas after the explosion and were seen breaking windows in the area. The cause of the explosion was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2507,4785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307116"}],"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=307116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307119,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307116\/revisions\/307119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}