{"id":352326,"date":"2018-03-15T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-several-killed-when-bridge-collapses-at-florida-university\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:10:13","slug":"presstv-several-killed-when-bridge-collapses-at-florida-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-several-killed-when-bridge-collapses-at-florida-university\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Several killed when bridge collapses at Florida university"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Several people were killed and cars crushed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University on Thursday in Miami-Dade County, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral people were killed. I just don\u2019t know how many,\u201d Alejandro Camacho, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least five to six vehicles crushed underneath the pedestrian crosswalk, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge connects the university with the city of Sweetwater and was installed on Saturday in six hours over the eight-lane highway, according to a story that was posted on the university\u2019s website. It was 174 feet (53 m) long and weighed 950 tons.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed firefighters were walking across the flattened wreckage and medics were treating injured people. Emergency personnel appeared to be trying to work their way through a hole in the top of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>(Source :&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/15\/555589\/US-bridge-collapses-Florida-university\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people were killed and cars crushed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University on Thursday in Miami-Dade County, officials said. \u201cSeveral people were killed. I just don\u2019t know how many,\u201d Alejandro Camacho, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said in a telephone interview. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}