{"id":11125,"date":"2019-09-02T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2019-09-02T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T09:02:13","slug":"15-killed-after-mali-building-collapses-like-a-house-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/15-killed-after-mali-building-collapses-like-a-house-of-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"15 killed after Mali building collapses &#8216;like a house of cards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fifteen people were killed on Sunday when a three-story building under construction collapsed &#8220;like a house of cards&#8221; in the Mali capital Bamako, the government and local media reports said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-six people were rescued alive from the partially occupied building after it collapsed just before dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Thanks to the determination of the emergency services, a young girl of around four years has just been pulled out of the rubble alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Another survivor (a woman) has just, happily, been extracted by rescuers,&#8221; the civil protection ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry later said an investigation into the building&#8217;s owner had been opened. According to local media reports, the top floor collapsed onto the rest of the building which was already occupied, resulting in the entire structure &#8220;collapsing like a house of cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such collapses are common in Mali where buildings are often constructed without planning permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Source: AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen people were killed on Sunday when a three-story building under construction collapsed &#8220;like a house of cards&#8221; in the Mali capital Bamako, the government and local media reports said. Twenty-six people were rescued alive from the partially occupied building after it collapsed just before dawn. &#8220;Thanks to the determination of the emergency services, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":11126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11127,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions\/11127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}