{"id":254802,"date":"2025-01-06T00:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=254802"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:08:57","slug":"tourists-escape-drowning-in-frozen-sela-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/tourists-escape-drowning-in-frozen-sela-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists escape drowning in frozen Sela Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prem Chetry ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 5 Jan:<\/strong> Four tourists had a narrow escape at Sela Lake on Sunday when attempting to walk on the frozen lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to sources, the incident occurred when a group of four tourists, including a female, deliberately walked on the frozen Sela Lake and fell into the lake. However, some of their other companions managed to pull them out of the lake and saved their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sela Lake is situated 14,000 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite an advisory issued by Tawang Deputy Commissioner Kanki Darang in December last year, urging tourists not to walk on high-altitude frozen lakes, tourists walk on the frozen Sela Lake, Shongetser Lake, PT Tso Lake, and the lake in Bumla Pass, locals say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to local tradition, high-altitude lakes are highly revered and fiddling with or polluting such lakes invites fatal trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prem Chetry ] TAWANG, 5 Jan: Four tourists had a narrow escape at Sela Lake on Sunday when attempting to walk on the frozen lake. According to sources, the incident occurred when a group of four tourists, including a female, deliberately walked on the frozen Sela Lake and fell into the lake. However, some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254802","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=254802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}