{"id":326713,"date":"2020-09-22T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326713"},"modified":"2020-09-22T06:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T06:56:32","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-20-in-maharashtras-bhiwandi-building-collapse-rescue-operations-still-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-rises-to-20-in-maharashtras-bhiwandi-building-collapse-rescue-operations-still-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 20 in Maharashtra&#8217;s Bhiwandi building collapse, rescue operations still underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-rises-to-20-in-maharashtras-bhiwandi-building-collapse-rescue-operations-still-underway\/building-bhiwandi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326714\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326714 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/building-bhiwandi-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/building-bhiwandi-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/building-bhiwandi.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a>The death toll in Maharashtra&#8217;s Bhiwandi building collapse has risen to 20, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) informed on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Satya Narayan Pradhan, DG NDRF informed about the present situation on the ground, in a tweet he said, &#8220;#BhiwandiBuildingCollapse update8, @NDRFHQ on site, 40 persons a\/cted for, 20 dead extracted, 20 rescued live, Ops continue, Difficult conditions, Loose hanging slabs\/debris, Team @5Ndrf committed to complete ops .<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The incident happened at around 3:40 am on Monday, when\u00a0a three-storey building collapsed in the Patel Compound area of Bhiwandi near Mumbai. 20 people have been rescued and several are still trapped under the rubble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Teams of the National Disaster Response Force and personnel of the Thane Disaster Response Force are leading the rescue operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">President Kovind, PM Modi had expressed anguish over the building collapse and condoled the loss of lives in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in Maharashtra&#8217;s Bhiwandi building collapse has risen to 20, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) informed on Tuesday. Satya Narayan Pradhan, DG NDRF informed about the present situation on the ground, in a tweet he said, &#8220;#BhiwandiBuildingCollapse update8, @NDRFHQ on site, 40 persons a\/cted for, 20 dead extracted, 20 rescued live, Ops continue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[13465,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326713"}],"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=326713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326716,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326713\/revisions\/326716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}