{"id":7440,"date":"2015-04-07T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/sparkbrook-mosque-collapse\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:23:22","slug":"sparkbrook-mosque-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/sparkbrook-mosque-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkbrook Mosque Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>City Council Opens Investigation <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sparkbrook-Mosque-Collapse-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Birmingham City Council has opened a formal investigation into how the roof of a mosque, shut two weeks ago, has collapsed. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Following an assessment of the building, the council has contracted Acivico who deals with faulty buildings, to find out the cause of the collapse. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The mosque, situated in the Watford Road of Sparkbrook, has been closed for two weeks so construction work could be carried out on the building. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>West Midlands Fire service has spoke of its relief that no-one had been in the building at the time, after it was called to the scene. The departments Highgate section was sent out along with a specialist dog unit from Leicestershire. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A statement from Acivico, stated, \u201cA meeting took place with a demolition contractor at 9.30am this morning to assess the immediate danger and to survey the building. \u201cRemedial work to make the building safe will then commence.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cA further update regarding the intended course of action will be supplied this afternoon following the assessment this morning.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Local resident, Abid Shah, \u201cI heard a sound like a huge lorry had driven past \u2013 there was no explosion. I went outside and there was dust in the air and rubble across the path and in the road. It was quite a shock. I am just so relieved that no-one has been hurt.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Opens Investigation &#13; Birmingham City Council has opened a formal investigation into how the roof of a mosque, shut two weeks ago, has collapsed. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; Following an assessment of the building, the council has contracted Acivico who deals with faulty buildings, to find out the cause of the collapse. &#13; \u00a0 [&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-7440","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\/7440","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=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/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=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}