{"id":11396,"date":"2025-06-15T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:05:31","slug":"casualties-feared-after-a-bridge-collapses-at-tourist-destination-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11396","title":{"rendered":"Casualties feared after a bridge collapses at tourist destination in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">NEW DELHI &#8212; <\/span>At least two people died and several others were feared to have been swept away after an iron bridge over a river collapsed at a popular tourist destination in India\u2019s western Maharashtra state, Press Trust of India reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said teams of the National Disaster Response Force and other search and recovery units have undertaken rescue operations, the news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident occurred in Kundamala area in Pune district, which has witnessed heavy rains over the past few days, giving the river a steady flow, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was not raining when the bridge collapsed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">At least five people were rescued and have been hospitalized, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI &#8212; At least two people died and several others were feared to have been swept away after an iron bridge over a river collapsed at a popular tourist destination in India\u2019s western Maharashtra state, Press Trust of India reported Sunday. Police said teams of the National Disaster Response Force and other search and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11397,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions\/11397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}