{"id":7964,"date":"2018-06-26T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:02:00","slug":"major-blast-thick-smoke-grip-construction-site-in-s-korea-37-injured-3-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7964","title":{"rendered":"Major blast &#038; thick smoke grip construction site in S. Korea, 37 injured, 3 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">A huge fire engulfed an underground parking garage of an apartment building under construction in central South Korea on Tuesday, leaving at least three dead and 37 others injured, Yonhap reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The blaze started at 1:10 p.m. local time at the Treeshade apartment construction site in the central administrative city of Sejong, sending flames and black smoke rising into the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Construction firm officials estimated the number of workers at the site at the time at 169.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">About 49 firetrucks and 200 firefighters battled the blaze. But firefighters had difficulty battling the flames since there was no fire extinguishing system in the building under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One Chinese national was among the dead, and one were severely wounded, while 13 other Chinese suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">All the injured Chinese were hospitalized, and three of them were released from hospitals after medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The Chinese Embassy has activated emergency response procedures to deal with the incident and asked South Korea to spare no efforts to treat the injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180627-skorea-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7966\" src=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180627-skorea-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180627-skorea-fire.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lapost.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180627-skorea-fire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge fire engulfed an underground&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}