{"id":16034,"date":"2025-08-07T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16034"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:04:03","slug":"five-dead-after-suspension-bridge-cable-snaps-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16034","title":{"rendered":"Five dead after suspension bridge cable snaps in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Five people were killed after a cable on a suspension bridge snapped in northwestern China&#8217;s Xinjiang region, causing them to fall off the bridge, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which took place at 6:18 p.m. on Wednesday in a sightseeing area in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, injured a further 24 people, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n<p>The scenic area has been closed while the incident is being investigated, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulating on social media, verified by Reuters, show a low-hanging suspension bridge tilted to one side with handrails made from cables dangling between the walkway and the ground below. Part of the bridge hangs over a river.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0Tens of thousands evacuated as torrential rains drench south China<\/p>\n<p>The videos also show at least two people lying on the ground below the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Reuters<\/p>\n<p>In one of the videos, a casualty was put onto a wooden plank, while another video shows people carrying the makeshift stretcher away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-square-kilometre (25-square-mile) area, called Xiata, boasts a natural landscape including a mountain pass, a valley, and a river as well as cultural remains such as ruins of an ancient town, public information shows.<\/p>\n<p>The central government has sent a task force to the site of the accident to oversee the investigation and the treatment of the injured, Xinhua said in a separate report.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were killed after a cable on a suspension bridge snapped in northwestern China&#8217;s Xinjiang region, causing them to fall off the bridge, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. The incident, which took place at 6:18 p.m. on Wednesday in a sightseeing area in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, injured a further 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}