{"id":236635,"date":"2024-03-10T00:19:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=236635"},"modified":"2024-03-10T00:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T18:49:03","slug":"at-least-10-dead-and-10-missing-as-landslide-and-flash-floods-hit-indonesias-sumatra-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/at-least-10-dead-and-10-missing-as-landslide-and-flash-floods-hit-indonesias-sumatra-island\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 dead and 10 missing as landslide and flash floods hit Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Padang, 9 Mar: Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving 10 others missing, officials said Saturday.<br \/>\nTons of mud, rocks and uprooted trees rolled down a mountain late Friday, reaching a river that burst its banks and tore through mountainside villages in Pesisir Selatan district of West Sumatra province, said Doni Yusrizal, who heads the local disaster management agency.<br \/>\nRescuers pulled out seven bodies in the worst-hit village of Koto XI Tarusan, and recovered three others in two neighbouring villages, said National Disaster Management Agency&#8217;s spokesperson Yusrizal. Ten are still missing.<br \/>\nHe said that 46,000 people had fled to a temporary government shelter after the flood and landslide buried 14 houses while 20,000 houses were flooded up to the roof.<br \/>\n&#8220;Relief efforts for the dead and missing were hampered by power outages, blocked roads covered in thick mud and debris,&#8221; Yusrizal said.<br \/>\nHeavy rains cause frequent landslides and flash floods in Indonesia, where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near floodplains. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padang, 9 Mar: Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia&#8217;s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving 10 others missing, officials said Saturday. Tons of mud, rocks and uprooted trees rolled down a mountain late Friday, reaching a river that burst its banks and tore through mountainside villages in [&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-236635","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\/236635","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=236635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}