{"id":54442,"date":"2023-04-19T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/at-least-21-killed-beijing-hospital-fire"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:02:20","slug":"at-least-21-people-killed-in-beijing-hospital-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54442","title":{"rendered":"At least 29 people killed in Beijing hospital fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some managed to escape from multi-storey building by fashioning bedsheets into makeshift ropes<\/p>\n<p>A fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said.<\/p>\n<p>As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky late on Tuesday, people trapped in the multi-storey building apparently tied bedsheets into makeshift ropes and escaped by climbing out of windows, as seen in videos circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/at-least-21-killed-beijing-hospital-fire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some managed to escape from multi-storey building by fashioning bedsheets into makeshift ropesA fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said.As clouds of black smoke b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3703,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/54442","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\/3703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54461,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54442\/revisions\/54461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}