{"id":38268,"date":"2019-04-01T04:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38268"},"modified":"2019-04-01T04:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T04:23:05","slug":"dozens-killed-as-storm-hits-southern-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38268","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed as storm hits southern Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.8706293706\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rescuers are struggling to reach villages in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/nepal.html\">Nepal<\/a> that were cut off by a rainstorm that has killed 25 people and injured hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The storm swept through villages in a farming region of Bara and Parsa districts in southern Nepal, about 120km south of capital Kathmandu, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nepal&#8217;s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli said he received a report of 25 people killed and 400 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police official Sanu Ram Bhattarai said people were crushed by falling walls of their own homes and other debris.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattarai said police officers and soldiers from neighbouring areas reached the districts on Monday and were trying to reach the villages.<\/p>\n<p>Police said cars were flipped by the high winds and passengers were killed in one bus that got blown off the highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thunderstorm uprooted trees, electricity poles and telephone poles. Most casualties occurred after people were struck by them,&#8221; said Bhattarai.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms normally hit the country in the spring between April and May, but experts say Sunday&#8217;s disaster was unusually severe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"8.61349693252\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Police Briefing: <br \/>So far, 24 dead bodies are collected at Bara Hospital. Rescuers from Nepal Army, APF &#038; Police are mobilized for rescue options. Both rescue and dead body collection works are underway. Electricity is not working in the areas. 100s of locals are injured in storm<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bhadra Sharma (@bhadrarukum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhadrarukum\/status\/1112407518020431872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers are struggling to reach villages in southern Nepal that were cut off by a rainstorm that has killed 25 people and injured hundreds more. The storm swept through villages in a farming region of Bara and Parsa districts in southern Nepal, about 120km south of capital Kathmandu, on Sunday night. Nepal&#8217;s Prime Minister Khadga&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38268","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\/38268","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=38268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}