{"id":345096,"date":"2023-08-03T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=345096"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:48:40","slug":"two-killed-in-bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/two-killed-in-bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in B\u2019luru overhead water tank collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/08\/Two-killed-in-Bluru-overhead-water-tank-collapse.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bengaluru \u00a0: Two people were killed on the spot and two others injured after an overhead water tank came crashing down from the fourth floor of a building in Bengaluru, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident took place in the limits of Shivajinagar police station late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the two victims, one had been identified as 40-year-old Arul, while the second is yet to be named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, Arul ran a fast-food cart adjacent to the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wall on which the water tank was placed had weakened over a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the tank, aportion of the wall in the building also collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two injured persons, of which one is said to be in a seious condition, have been shifted to a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Division DCP Bheema Shankar Guled said the building is close to the Shivajinagar bus terminal and preliminary probe suggested that the tank was placed overhear without any intial checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guilty will be punished after the investigation, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru \u00a0: Two people were killed on the spot and two others injured after an overhead water tank came crashing down from the fourth floor of a building in Bengaluru, police said. The incident took place in the limits of Shivajinagar police station late Wednesday night. Of the two victims, one had been identified as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":345097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16586,17138,17137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345096"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345098,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345096\/revisions\/345098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/345097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}