{"id":3252,"date":"2008-06-06T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/building-collapse-man-named\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:07:27","slug":"building-collapse-man-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/06\/building-collapse-man-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Building collapse man named"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Police identify man as 47-year-old Lakhvir Singh<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"269\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/WestBromcollapse180x232.jpg\"\/>A MAN who died following the collapse of the roof of a building in West Bromwich High Street has been named by police.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Emergency services were unable to save 46-year-old Lakhvir Singh from the building following the collapse in the early hours of Wednesday last week. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The fire service spokesman described the incident as a &#8216;catastrophic failure&#8217; of the roof.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>It is believed the roof collapsed inwards, causing the floors below to collapse downwards towards the ground floor which was used as an estate agents office. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A post-mortem examination confirmed that Mr Singh died from traumatic asphyxia. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His body was removed from the building on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Enquiries into the cause of the collapse are still ongoing, although police have now reopened High Street which had been closed since the incident.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Buildings immediately adjacent to the affected premises currently remain closed.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFour other men who had been inside the building survived the collapse. Two were treated for minor injuries.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police identify man as 47-year-old Lakhvir Singh A MAN who died following the collapse of the roof of a building in West Bromwich High Street has been named by police. &#13; Emergency services were unable to save 46-year-old Lakhvir Singh from the building following the collapse in the early hours of Wednesday last week. &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}