{"id":18688,"date":"2026-05-03T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=18688"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:02:44","slug":"3-workers-dead-1-rescued-in-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/3-workers-dead-1-rescued-in-jammu\/","title":{"rendered":"3 workers dead, 1 rescued in Jammu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jammu, May 02:\u00a0<\/strong>Three workers died after an under-construction bridge collapsed in Bantalab\u2019s Thathar area of Jammu, officials said, adding that the rescue operation has been concluded after all trapped labourers were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>An official said that four labourers were working beneath the bridge when a section of the structure suddenly gave way, trapping them under debris.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the incident, teams of Police, Army, SDRF, NDRF and civil administration rushed to the spot and launched a joint rescue operation. \u201cJCBs and other machinery were pressed into service to locate the trapped workers at the earliest,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said one injured labourer was rescued alive and shifted to hospital for treatment, while three others were recovered dead during the overnight operation.<\/p>\n<p>Additional District Development Commissioner (ADC) Jammu, Thakur Sher Singh, told KNO that three workers had died while one was rescued alive. \u201cThe rescue operation concluded at around 1:00 am and the injured labourer is undergoing treatment at the hospital and is stated to be stable,\u201d he said<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu, May 02:\u00a0Three workers died after an under-construction bridge collapsed in Bantalab\u2019s Thathar area of Jammu, officials said, adding that the rescue operation has been concluded after all trapped labourers were recovered. An official said that four labourers were working beneath the bridge when a section of the structure suddenly gave way, trapping them under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18690,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688\/revisions\/18690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}