{"id":15778,"date":"2018-09-20T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15778"},"modified":"2018-09-20T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:24:11","slug":"storm-ali-leaves-two-dead-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15778","title":{"rendered":"Storm Ali leaves two dead in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.1894736842\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Storm Ali battered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ireland.html\">Northern Ireland<\/a> and Scotland, leaving two people dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Irish police said the body of a woman in her 50s was recovered on a beach in the village of Claddaghduff in the western county of Galway after her caravan fell from the cliff above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Police said an engineer working for the Northern Ireland Water utility was killed in an incident involving a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The storm caused severe damage across Northern Ireland and the Republic, as winds reached up to 225 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Deakin from the UK Meteorological Office said Storm Ali brought the strongest wind gusts on record to Northern Ireland since 1880, at 146km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>It left 200,000 people without electricity and more than 50 flights in and out of Dublin were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/Scotland.html\">Scotland<\/a>, a cruise liner off the coast had to be rescued and people battled heavy rain and damaging winds as they tried to go about their daily tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The worst weather has now moved away into Scandinavia but further spells of wet and windy weather are expected on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Met Office also issued warnings for other wind storms across England and Wales on Sunday and into early Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm Ali battered Northern Ireland and Scotland, leaving two people dead. Irish police said the body of a woman in her 50s was recovered on a beach in the village of Claddaghduff in the western county of Galway after her caravan fell from the cliff above. Police said an engineer working for the Northern Ireland&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15778","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\/15778","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=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}