{"id":368906,"date":"2026-01-14T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368906\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:07","slug":"thailand-at-least-22-dead-as-crane-collapses-onto-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368906\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: At least 22 dead as crane collapses onto train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand no stranger to deadly construction accidentspublished at 06:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deadly construction accidents are not uncommon in Thailand, due in part to poor enforcement of standards and regulations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023, a freight train collided with a pick-up truck that was crossing railway tracks in the country&#8217;s east, killing eight people and injuring four others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, a high-rise construction site in Bangkok collapsed after an earthquake, killing more than 100 people and drawing attention to long-standing flaws in the sector. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to a study by the Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Fund in 2022, more than 4,500 workers were killed or injured in construction accidents the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand no stranger to deadly construction accidentspublished at 06:19 GMT 06:19 GMT Deadly construction accidents are not uncommon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-368906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}