{"id":1783,"date":"2024-07-20T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:35:06","slug":"china-bridge-collapse-kills-at-least-11-after-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"China bridge collapse kills at least 11 after floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC\/<\/strong> At least 11 people have died and more than 30 are missing after a highway bridge partially collapsed during torrential rains in northwest China.<\/p>\n

The bridge over a river in Shaanxi province\u2019s Shangluo city collapsed on Friday night due to a sudden downpour and flash floods, the provincial authority said.<\/p>\n

Rescue teams have recovered several vehicles that fell into the river, with efforts still underway according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged an \u201call out\u201d effort to find those still missing.<\/p>\n

The 11 dead were found in five cars that were pulled from the river below. It is thought 20 more vehicles plunged into the water, according to state media.<\/p>\n

Video and images from Xinhua news agency shows a partially submerged section of the bridge with heavy river waters rushing around it.<\/p>\n

According to Xinhua, officials sent 736 firefighters, 18 boats and 32 drones to the scene.<\/p>\n

On Friday, at least five people were killed in flooding and mudslides in another part of the province.<\/p>\n

Large parts of northern and central China have been battered since Tuesday by rains that have caused flooding and significant damage.<\/p>\n

State media reported at least five people died and eight were missing after the rains sparked flooding and mudslides in Shaanxi\u2019s Baoji city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC\/ At least 11 people have died and more than 30 are missing after a highway bridge partially collapsed during torrential rains in northwest China. The bridge over a river in Shaanxi province\u2019s Shangluo city collapsed on Friday night due to a sudden downpour and flash floods, the provincial authority said. Rescue teams have recovered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}