{"id":492924,"date":"2026-03-24T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:55:08","slug":"two-people-in-hospital-after-building-collapses-in-oldham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492924\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people in hospital after building collapses in Oldham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North West Ambulance Service confirmed the injuries of the two people taken to hospital were not thought to be serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The building is owned by Oldham Councillor Kamran Ghafoor, who has declined to comment on the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local businessman Kwok Wong, who owns Ree Ming Chippy in Royton, told BBC  he arrived in the town centre to find the building had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the emergencies were there already when I arrived,&#8221; Wong said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But the building was a mess. Air ambulances landed on top on Mecca Bingo roof.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North West Ambulance Service confirmed the injuries of the two people taken to hospital were not thought to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-492924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492924","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=492924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}