{"id":33904,"date":"2025-10-02T04:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/church-collapses-in-ethiopia-dozens-dead-hundreds-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:31:57","slug":"church-collapses-in-ethiopia-dozens-dead-hundreds-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/church-collapses-in-ethiopia-dozens-dead-hundreds-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Church collapses in Ethiopia: dozens dead, hundreds injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ethiopia, scaffolding collapsed in the Menjar Shenkora Areti Mariam church, killing at least 30 people and injuring over 200. The tragedy occurred on October 1 during a religious holiday, when worshippers climbed the scaffolding to see a fresco.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2F1759379414-2381-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Church collapses in Ethiopia: dozens dead, hundreds injured\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least 30 people have died and more than 200 have been injured after scaffolding collapsed at a church in Ethiopia. This is reported by UNN with reference to CNN, BBC<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The accident occurred on the morning of October 1 at the Menjar Shenkora Areti Mariam Church in Amhara, northern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>According to local police inspector Ahmed Gebeyehu, thousands of worshipers gathered at this church for a religious holiday. According to eyewitnesses, many people climbed the wooden scaffolding to look at a fresco on the ceiling. Then the support structure collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The police officer emphasized that the death toll could increase, adding that the confirmed dead were between 25 and 80 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Local authorities report that many people are still under the rubble, and rescue operations are ongoing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the BBC post says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is noted that the church is located in the central district of Menjar Sheknora, about 70 km from the capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#039;s government expressed &quot;deep condolences&quot; over the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The government statement also emphasized that &quot;safety must be a priority&quot; during all construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, safety regulations are poorly observed in Ethiopia, so building collapses are common.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>In New York, a part of a 20-story apartment building in the Bronx collapsed. The cause was a gas explosion that collapsed the incinerator shaft.<\/p>\n<p>Five houses collapsed into the ocean in the USA due to hurricanes01.10.25, 09:11 \u2022 3098 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ethiopia, scaffolding collapsed in the Menjar Shenkora Areti Mariam church, killing at least 30 people and injuring over 200. The tragedy occurred on October 1 during a religious holiday, when worshippers climbed the scaffolding to see a fresco. At least 30 people have died and more than 200 have been injured after scaffolding collapsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}