{"id":25793,"date":"2020-12-18T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/18\/cyclone-yasa-two-die-in-fiji-as-storm-hits-second-largest-island"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:01:05","slug":"cyclone-yasa-two-die-in-fiji-as-storm-lays-waste-to-second-largest-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25793","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Yasa: two die in Fiji as storm lays waste to second-largest island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby among those killed when category-five storm hit, destroying hundreds of buildings <\/p>\n<p>A three-month-old baby was one of two people killed when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/fiji-imposes-curfew-ahead-of-cyclone-yasa\">category-five Cyclone Yasa<\/a> tore through Fiji\u2019s second-largest island Vanua Levu on Thursday night. The cyclone destroyed hundreds of buildings and caused hundreds of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, the full extent of the damage was yet to be revealed as many parts of the affected island remained without communications and were cut off by flood waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/18\/cyclone-yasa-two-die-in-fiji-as-storm-hits-second-largest-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby among those killed when category-five storm hit, destroying hundreds of buildings A three-month-old baby was one of two people killed when category-five Cyclone Yasa tore through Fiji\u2019s second-largest island Vanua Levu on Thursday night. The cyclo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1757,"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":[41,455,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/25793","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\/1757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793\/revisions\/25817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}