{"id":3113,"date":"2024-05-07T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/five-dead-and-49-missing-as-multi-story-building-collapses-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:21:51","slug":"five-dead-and-49-missing-as-multi-story-building-collapses-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/five-dead-and-49-missing-as-multi-story-building-collapses-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead and 49 missing as multi-story building collapses in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvw8h5y1000jtrp12m0t9l3t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Five people have died and 49 are unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George, officials said Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvw8kvmi00063b6kjeizugxk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Rescue missions remain underway, and 26 people have been removed from the rubble since the building collapsed in the Western cape province around 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. ET) on Monday, George Municipality said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvw8kvmi00073b6kn29vy5so@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThree teams of rescue personnel are currently working on three different areas within the site of the collapsed building,\u201d the statement said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvw8kvmi00083b6kqt7o6cl6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            South African President Cyril Ramaphosa offered his condolences in a statement from his office Tuesday, saying, \u201cThe President\u2019s thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones as well as the families of close to 50 people who are trapped in the rubble.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clvw8n39b000f3b6k4h92z4za@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Ramaphosa also called for an investigation into how the incident happened, to \u201cbring closure to the community and prevent a repeat of this disaster.\u201d the statement said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have died and 49 are unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}