{"id":156145,"date":"2021-12-17T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=156145"},"modified":"2021-12-17T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:52:23","slug":"27-feared-dead-as-fire-breaks-out-in-building-in-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=156145","title":{"rendered":"27 Feared Dead As Fire Breaks Out In Building In Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOKYO, Dec 17 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Twenty-seven people were feared dead, as a fire broke out in a building in Osaka, on the Japanese island of Honshu, local media reported today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire started on the fourth floor of the six-story multi-tenant building, located near JR Osaka Station, according to the local fire department, which received a report of fire at around 10:20 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 70 fire engines were sent to the scene, and the fire was extinguished by around 10:45 a.m. local time, after burning across an area of approximately 20 square metres for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 28 people were injured, and 27 of them were in cardiopulmonary arrest. So far, 23 people have been transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that the fire started within a medical clinic, which provides psychosomatic and psychiatric treatments on the fourth floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Osaka police have begun investigating what might start the fire, since there was a suspicion of arson due to the situation at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I saw smoke coming out and there were a lot of fire trucks and ambulances. People were being rescued by a ladder truck. At one point, there was a power outage in the surrounding area,&#8221; a witness working at a nearby restaurant said.&#8211; NNN-NHK  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Dec 17 (NNN-NHK) &#8211; Twenty-seven people were feared dead, as a fire broke out in a building in Osaka, on the Japanese island of Honshu, local media reported today. The fire started on the fourth floor of the six-story multi-tenant building, located near JR Osaka Station, according to the local fire department, which received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":156147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,316],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}