{"id":41879,"date":"2025-12-12T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/update-on-structural-collapse-incident-in-verulam-durban\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:49:56","slug":"update-on-structural-collapse-incident-in-verulam-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/update-on-structural-collapse-incident-in-verulam-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Structural Collapse Incident in Verulam, Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), through the Provincial Disaster Management Centre, is coordinating emergency response to the structural collapse that occurred earlier today at a temple in Verulam, north of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 12:40, reports were received of a structural collapse at the temple premises.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were immediately dispatched to the scene. The cause of the collapse is unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p>A multi-disciplinary team is on site comprising of search and rescue teams, fire fighters and emergency responders.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed Casualties and Rescues<\/p>\n<p>Eleven individuals (two females and nine males) have been successfully rescued and transported to hospital for medical care.  <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, one person has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue operations are continuing to ensure no additional persons remain trapped.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates will be provided as soon as verified information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Issued by KwaZulu Natal Department&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75655&#038;page=update-on-structural-collapse-incident-in-verulam-durban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KwaZulu Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), through the Provincial Disaster Management Centre, is coordinating emergency response to the structural collapse that occurred earlier today at a temple in Verulam, north of Durban. At approximately 12:40, reports were received of a structural collapse at the temple premises. Emergency services were immediately dispatched to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-12-12%20at%2018_20_59.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-41879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/WhatsApp%20Image%202025-12-12%20at%2018_20_59.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}