{"id":8305,"date":"2019-03-17T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2019-03-17T11:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T07:52:52","slug":"flash-floods-slides-in-eastern-indonesia-kill-at-least-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/03\/17\/flash-floods-slides-in-eastern-indonesia-kill-at-least-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods, slides in eastern Indonesia kill at least 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash flood and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia&#8217;s easternmost province, killing at least 50 people and injuring 59 others, the Associated Press, AP, reported disaster officials as saying, Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster in Papua province&#8217;s Jayapura district submerged hundreds of houses in neck-high water and mud, said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. The floods and slides also destroyed roads and bridges, hampering rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Nugroho said 50 bodies had been pulled from the mud and wreckage of crumpled homes by Sunday, and another 59 people were hospitalised, many with broken bones and head wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The dead included three children who drowned after the floods began late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the number of dead and injured will likely increase since many affected areas have not been reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash flood and mudslides triggered by days of torrential downpours tore through mountainside villages in Indonesia&#8217;s easternmost province, killing at least 50 people and injuring 59 others, the Associated Press, AP, reported disaster officials as saying, Sunday. The disaster in Papua province&#8217;s Jayapura district submerged hundreds of houses in neck-high water and mud, said National &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","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\/8305","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=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8307,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}