{"id":43284,"date":"2018-09-01T01:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=43284"},"modified":"2018-09-01T01:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:48:42","slug":"iaf-rescues-19-from-island-in-siang-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/iaf-rescues-19-from-island-in-siang-river\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF rescues 19 from island in Siang river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 31:<\/strong> A five-member crew of the Indian Air Force (IAF) rescued 19 persons including seven minors from the Jampani grazing area near Sika Tode\/Sika Bamin villages in East Siang district on early Friday morning.<br \/>\nThe evacuees were provided with medical checkup and counselling by the district administration.<br \/>\n&#8220;So far, no human casualty has been reported; however, cattle casualties cannot be ruled out as cattle sheds are submerged in the floodwater,&#8221; DDMO Genden Tsomu said.<br \/>\nUsing an Mi-17 helicopter, which was launched from Mohanbari, Assam, the IAF started the rescue operation at 4:45 am, and it was over by 6:10 am. It took six sorties to rescue the stranded persons.<br \/>\nThe district administration had sought the support of the IAF to rescue the people stranded on an isolated island in flood-affected Siang river at Jampani on the evening of 30 August.<br \/>\nThe quick response team of the district, under the supervision of the SP, has been monitoring the situation since Thursday. A column from the 307 Medium Regiment of the Sigar military station, led by Maj APS Kandari, rendered logistic support in the rescue operation, said a report from the DDMO.<br \/>\nOne Tageng Nyitan of Bamin village accompanied the IAF chopper in the rescue mission, the report added.<br \/>\nLater, DC Tamiyo Tatak, MP Ninong Ering, and SP Prashant Gautam met the evacuees at the Pasighat ALG.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the district authority had said that the Siang river was swelling due to heavy rainfall in the Chinese portion. The DC has cautioned the people living in low-lying areas of the district to remain alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 31: A five-member crew of the Indian Air Force (IAF) rescued 19 persons including seven minors from the Jampani grazing area near Sika Tode\/Sika Bamin villages in East Siang district on early Friday morning. The evacuees were provided with medical checkup and counselling by the district administration. &#8220;So far, no human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43284","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\/43284","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=43284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}