{"id":318093,"date":"2017-05-11T07:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318093"},"modified":"2017-05-11T07:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:55:41","slug":"wall-collapse-kills-22-wedding-guests-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/wall-collapse-kills-22-wedding-guests-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall collapse kills 22 wedding guests in India"},"content":{"rendered":"
At least 22 people were killed when a wall collapsed during a wedding party in northern India.<\/p>\n
The guests had taken shelter from heavy rain under a tin shack when a wall collapsed onto it in the storm.<\/p>\n
Another 26 people were injured in the accident in Bharatpur, a district in Rajasthan state, 15 of them seriously.<\/p>\n
Local media reports say food stalls had been set up along the wall for the wedding.<\/p>\n
“The wall and a tin shed attached to it at the marriage venue collapsed due to a storm,” police officer Anil Tank is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
He said the wall was nearly 90ft (27m) long and 12-13ft in height and the collapse trapped many guests.<\/p>\n
“The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals immediately and treatment was administered,” he said.<\/p>\n
Bharatpur district is about 200km (124 miles) south of Delhi.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 22 people were killed when a wall collapsed during a wedding party in northern India. The guests had taken shelter from heavy rain under a tin shack when a wall collapsed onto it in the storm. Another 26 people were injured in the accident in Bharatpur, a district in Rajasthan state, 15 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[6999,7000,7001],"yoast_head":"\n