{"id":247934,"date":"2023-12-11T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=247934"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T07:18:47","slug":"fire-at-brazilian-settlement-kills-9-37-others-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=247934","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Brazilian settlement kills 9; 37 others injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 11 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Nine people were killed after a fire at a settlement belonging to the Landless Workers&#8217; Movement in the Brazilian Amazon, firefighters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blaze at the Land and Liberty camp in the city of Parauapebas, a municipality in the state of Para in the northern region of Brazil, was caused by an explosion that set alight the electrical network running through the settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technicians from an Internet company who were working on the network accidentally connected the Internet cable to a high-voltage cable, causing an explosion, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the camp&#8217;s barracks quickly caught fire and were completely destroyed, and three workers and six camp residents were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the tragedy is much greater than we imagined. There are at least nine dead, but more people might still be found &#8230; It is very sad,&#8221; said Darci Jose Lermen, mayor of Parauapebas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, 37 people had to be treated for burns and excessive smoke inhalation.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 11 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Nine people were killed after a fire at a settlement belonging to the Landless Workers&#8217; Movement in the Brazilian Amazon, firefighters said. The blaze at the Land and Liberty camp in the city of Parauapebas, a municipality in the state of Para in the northern region of Brazil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247934"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247935,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247934\/revisions\/247935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}