{"id":8525,"date":"2019-09-05T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/blast-at-india-fireworks-factory-kills-more-than-20"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:58:08","slug":"blast-at-india-fireworks-factory-kills-more-than-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8525","title":{"rendered":"Blast at India fireworks factory kills more than 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and politicians say authorities failed to close illegal factory that caused a fatal explosion in 2017 <\/p>\n<p>An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern India has killed at least 22 people and caused the building to catch fire and collapse, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Mukhtiar Singh said 15 other people were injured in Wednesday\u2019s blast in Batala, a town in Punjab state about 460km (285 miles) north of New Delhi. Singh said rescue work was continuing at the site.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/05\/blast-at-india-fireworks-factory-kills-more-than-20\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents and politicians say authorities failed to close illegal factory that caused a fatal explosion in 2017 An explosion at a fireworks factory in northern India has killed at least 22 people and caused the building to catch fire and collapse, offi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}