{"id":12424,"date":"2018-08-22T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12424"},"modified":"2018-08-22T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T22:22:51","slug":"unprecedented-floods-in-indian-tourist-hotspot-kill-dozens-40000-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12424","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unprecedented&#8217; floods in Indian tourist hotspot kill dozens; 40,000 evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>Dozens of people have been killed, and tens of thousands more evacuated, after &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; flash flooding in a tourist hotspot in southern India.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">At least 37 people have died since heavy monsoonal rains first struck the state of Kerala on Wednesday, the state&#8217;s relief commissioner P.H. Kurian told CNN on Sunday.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The area, located on the tropical Malabar Coast, is famed for its <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/kerala-backwaters-india\/index.html\">network of idyllic waterways<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)Dozens of people have been killed, and tens of thousands more evacuated, after &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; flash flooding in a tourist hotspot in southern India.At least 37 people have died since heavy monsoonal rains first struck the state of Kerala on Wednesday, the state&#8217;s relief commissioner P.H. Kurian told CNN on Sunday. The area, located&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}