{"id":2098,"date":"2011-05-18T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2011-05-18T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T07:00:51","slug":"three-killed-as-building-collapses-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/18\/three-killed-as-building-collapses-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Three killed as building collapses in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lilongwe &#8211; An ageing one-storey building in Malawi&#8217;s commercial capital of Blantyre collapsed on Tuesday, crushing three people to death and seriously injuring another 18, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The building, which housed a popular restaurant, was under renovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that three people have died, including the owner of the restaurant,\u201d police spokesperson Davie Chingwalu told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He said 18 people, mostly staff, were rushed to several hospitals in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Kips restaurant had not opened when the incident occurred at around 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Chingwalu said work to remove the pile of rubble was \u201ctaking too long\u201d because there was only one grader.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, in downtown Blantyre near the offices of the central bank, drew hundreds of onlookers in the small city, choking traffic.<\/p>\n<p>President Bingu wa Mutharika ordered army troops to help remove debris and rescue any people still trapped in the rubble. &#8211; Sapa-AFP<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kips-Disaster-Pic-By-Dan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2099\" title=\"Kips-Disaster-Pic-By-Dan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Kips-Disaster-Pic-By-Dan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilongwe &#8211; An ageing one-storey building in Malawi&#8217;s commercial capital of Blantyre collapsed on Tuesday, crushing three people to death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[562,524,563,564],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-building","tag-kips","tag-sad","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}