{"id":37992,"date":"2021-10-14T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/killed-fire-engulfs-building-southern-taiwan-kaohsiung"},"modified":"2021-10-14T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:32:19","slug":"dozens-killed-as-fire-engulfs-building-in-southern-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37992","title":{"rendered":"At least 46 killed as fire engulfs building in southern Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-one injured in \u2018extremely fierce\u2019 blaze at 13-storey building in city of Kaohsiung<\/p>\n<p>A cross-departmental investigation has been launched in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, after at least 46 people died and another 41 were injured in a fire in that engulfed a building overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-storey building caught fire at about 3am local time (20:00 BST) on Thursday, officials in the city of Kaohsiung said. An earlier fire department statement said the blaze was \u201cextremely fierce\u201d and destroyed many floors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/14\/killed-fire-engulfs-building-southern-taiwan-kaohsiung\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-one injured in \u2018extremely fierce\u2019 blaze at 13-storey building in city of KaohsiungA cross-departmental investigation has been launched in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, after at least 46 people died and another 41 were injured in a fir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions\/38006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}