{"id":10486,"date":"2019-10-27T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/26\/prayers-for-the-dead-in-vietnam-for-the-families-left-in-limbo"},"modified":"2019-10-27T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:06:13","slug":"prayers-for-the-dead-in-vietnam-for-the-families-left-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10486","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for the dead in Vietnam for the families left in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of those thought to have perished in Essex face a terrible wait for news<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, prayers for the dead rang out over loudspeakers. Residents, their heads bowed, could be seen walking solemnly through Yen Thanh\u2019s rain-soaked streets.<\/p>\n<p>Situated in a remote stretch of Vietnam\u2019s Nghe An province, Yen Thanh is where many of the 39 people found dead in the back of a lorry 6,000 miles away in Essex are believed to have started their tragic journey. The district now finds itself at the epicentre of a global police inquiry into the smuggling ring thought to be responsible for the UK\u2019s biggest murder investigation since the 7\/7 London bombings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/26\/prayers-for-the-dead-in-vietnam-for-the-families-left-in-limbo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of those thought to have perished in Essex face a terrible wait for newsThroughout the day, prayers for the dead rang out over loudspeakers. Residents, their heads bowed, could be seen walking solemnly through Yen Thanh\u2019s rain-soaked streets&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,52,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-uk-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10486\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}