{"id":6752,"date":"2018-12-30T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T10:01:06","slug":"26-killed-in-landslides-floods-in-eastern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/12\/30\/26-killed-in-landslides-floods-in-eastern-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"26 killed in landslides, floods in eastern Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six people have been\u00a0killed in landslides and floods caused by a tropical depression that brought heavy rains over the eastern Philippines, police and emergency officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, DPA, more than 22,000 people were also displaced by the landslides and floods in six provinces that bore the brunt of the rains.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams were still searching for several missing in the affected areas, emergency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The weather bureau said the tropical depression, locally named Usman, has weakened into a low pressure area after making landfall, but warned that eastern and central provinces would continue to experience rains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A cold front and the north-east monsoon were also bringing bad weather\u00a0over the capital\u00a0and other parts of the country, which could dampen usually rowdy New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations,&#8221;added DPA.<\/p>\n<p>Each year the Philippines is hit by an average of 20 cyclones causing floods, landslides and other accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six people have been\u00a0killed in landslides and floods caused by a tropical depression that brought heavy rains over the eastern Philippines, police and emergency officials said Sunday. According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, DPA, more than 22,000 people were also displaced by the landslides and floods in six provinces that bore the brunt of the rains. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}