{"id":49885,"date":"2022-11-02T00:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/gujarat-bridge-collapse-anger-grows-in-india-over-cover-up-claims"},"modified":"2022-11-02T00:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:33:02","slug":"gujarat-bridge-collapse-anger-grows-in-india-over-cover-up-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49885","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat bridge collapse: anger grows in India over cover-up claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions asked after 135 people killed as to why repair contract was given to local firm better know for making clocks<\/p>\n<p>Anger is growing in India over allegations that corruption was responsible for the collapse of a bridge in Morbi in Gujarat leaving 135 people dead, amid claims that a cover-up is under way to shield those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge snapped in two on Sunday evening when families were out enjoying the evening air over the river. Many of those standing in the middle of the bridge when it collapsed plunged into the river and drowned, while others at both ends of the bridge, closer to the banks, died from the impact of falling on to the stones and boulders below.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/gujarat-bridge-collapse-anger-grows-in-india-over-cover-up-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions asked after 135 people killed as to why repair contract was given to local firm better know for making clocksAnger is growing in India over allegations that corruption was responsible for the collapse of a bridge in Morbi in Gujarat leaving 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/49885","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49885\/revisions\/49886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}