{"id":27671,"date":"2019-01-01T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27671"},"modified":"2019-01-01T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:22:56","slug":"omani-claims-for-damage-caused-by-cyclone-mekunu-exceed-400-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27671","title":{"rendered":"Omani claims for damage caused by Cyclone Mekunu exceed $400 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1428756\/middle-east\" readability=\"61\">\n<p>\n<strong>DUBAI: Oman\u2019s Cyclone Mekunu left a trail of destruction and a multimillion-dollar insurance bill, national daily, Times of Oman reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Insurance claims against the damage caused by the devastating cyclone that ripped through southern Oman in May, 2018, have exceeded $400 million. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Dozens of people were killed when Cyclone Mekuna ripped through southern Yemen and Oman in May, leaving a path of destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>It hit Oman late on May 25, bringing with it, torrential rain, gusts of up to 180 kph, eight-feet tall waves, and flash floods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Now insurance companies say they have received 1,123 claims up to the end of September worth $403.7 million, the report added, citing data from the <\/strong>Capital Market Authority (CMA).<\/p>\n<p>\nThere was also extensive damage caused to properties, the road networks and coastal defenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Oman\u2019s Cyclone Mekunu left a trail of destruction and a multimillion-dollar insurance bill, national daily, Times of Oman reported. Insurance claims against the damage caused by the devastating cyclone that ripped through southern Oman in May, 2018, have exceeded $400 million. Dozens of people were killed when Cyclone Mekuna ripped through southern Yemen and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27671","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\/27671","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=27671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}