{"id":195749,"date":"2022-07-19T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=195749"},"modified":"2022-07-19T00:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:38:24","slug":"19-women-dead-as-boat-carrying-wedding-party-capsizes-in-river-indus-on-punjab-sindh-border-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/19-women-dead-as-boat-carrying-wedding-party-capsizes-in-river-indus-on-punjab-sindh-border-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"19 women dead as boat carrying wedding party capsizes in river Indus on Punjab-Sindh border in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lahore, Jul 18 (PTI) At least 19 women belonging to a wedding party drowned on Monday after a boat carrying them capsized in the river Indus near the Punjab and Sindh border area in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials said a widespread search was on to find the other members of the wedding party which included 100 people of one clan in Machka, approximately 65 kilometres from Rahim Yar Khan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahim Yar Khan Deputy Commissioner Syed Musa Raza told the media that around 30 rescuers including expert swimmers, five ambulances, and a water rescue van were at the spot taking part in the rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Nineteen bodies, all women, have been pulled from the water while we are searching for the remaining passengers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raza said there are still others missing after the boat capsized due to overloading and high flow of water. &#8220;There could be more casualties,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wedding party of 100 people was returning from Rajanpur in Punjab to Machka when the incident occured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed grief and condolences over the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, Jul 18 (PTI) At least 19 women belonging to a wedding party drowned on Monday after a boat carrying them capsized in the river Indus near the Punjab and Sindh border area in Pakistan. Officials said a widespread search was on to find the other members of the wedding party which included 100 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-195749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}