{"id":31174,"date":"2019-01-30T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31174"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:22:54","slug":"at-least-12-people-killed-as-floods-cause-havoc-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31174","title":{"rendered":"At least 12 people killed as floods cause havoc in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"76.1643356643\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>At least 12 people have been killed as heavy rain caused havoc in Saudi Arabia this week, according to the kingdom\u2019s civil defence authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span><span>The heavy downpours hit mainly the western and northwestern parts of the country close to the border with Jordan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Ten people died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one each in the holy city of Medina and in the northern border areas, the official SPA news agency reported the defence authority as saying on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the authority said a total of 271 people have been rescued across the country since Sunday. Civil defence teams have also evacuated 137 people in the northwestern Tabuk region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.984\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today&#8217;s visuals of flash flood in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5u43sSwLIC\">pic.twitter.com\/5u43sSwLIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khalid khi (@khalid_pk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khalid_pk\/status\/1089565530011389953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local media reports said light to moderate rain caused power outages in the capital Riyadh as well as Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p><span>A number of committees have been set up to assess the damage caused by the bad weather, the agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed as heavy rain caused havoc in Saudi Arabia this week, according to the kingdom\u2019s civil defence authority. The heavy downpours hit mainly the western and northwestern parts of the country close to the border with Jordan. Ten people died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31174","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\/31174","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=31174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}