{"id":15686,"date":"2018-09-20T01:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2018-09-20T01:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:23:16","slug":"typhoon-mangkhut-illegal-mining-linked-to-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15686","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Mangkhut: Illegal mining linked to landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>A grim wait for dozens of people still missing continues, after super Typhoon Mangkhut tore through the Philippines burying dozens of people under a massive landslide.<\/p>\n<p>At least 81 people have been killed and the death toll continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery operations are underway but they are proving extremely difficult, especially in a region where infrastructure has always been a major challenge. <\/p>\n<p>Decades of unrestrained mining has made many areas of this mountain-range precarious and dangerous, leading environmental activists blaming the illegal mining for the landslides. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jamela Alingogan reports from Itogon, decades of unrestrained mining has made these tragedies all too common.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grim wait for dozens of people still missing continues, after super Typhoon Mangkhut tore through the Philippines burying dozens of people under a massive landslide. At least 81 people have been killed and the death toll continues to rise. Recovery operations are underway but they are proving extremely difficult, especially in a region where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","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=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}