{"id":53640,"date":"2019-12-07T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T01:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53640"},"modified":"2019-12-07T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T01:11:59","slug":"five-die-in-gas-explosion-in-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53640","title":{"rendered":"Five die in gas explosion in Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRATISLAVA, Dec 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least five people died and dozens were injured in a gas explosion that rocked a high-rise apartment building in eastern Slovakia on Friday, rescue services said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFive people died and we estimated the number of injured at 40,\u201d Alena Krcova, a spokeswoman for the rescue services, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blast in the eastern Slovak town of Presov, 400 kilometres from the capital Bratislava, occurred around noon on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hospital spokeswoman told local media that none of the nine blast casualties treated at the facility in the immediate aftermath of the explosion had been in a critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe blast followed by a fire affected four or five floors\u201d of the 12-storey building, firefighters told local media, warning that it was in danger of collapsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters evacuated an unknown number of people from the building, local police said in a post on their official Facebook page. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRATISLAVA, Dec 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least five people died and dozens were injured in a gas explosion that rocked a high-rise apartment building in eastern Slovakia on Friday, rescue services said. \u201cFive people died and we estimated the number of injured at 40,\u201d Alena Krcova, a spokeswoman for the rescue services, said. The blast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640"}],"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=53640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}