{"id":32272,"date":"2021-05-20T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/cyclone-tauktae-death-toll-rises-after-huge-storm-hits-india"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:35:28","slug":"cyclone-tauktae-death-toll-rises-to-more-than-90-after-huge-storm-hits-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32272","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Tauktae: death toll rises to more than 90 after huge storm hits India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue ships recover 26 bodies of offshore workers and 49 still missing after storm bringing 180km\/h winds leaves trail of destruction<\/p>\n<p>The number of fatalities from a major cyclone on India\u2019s west coast has jumped to at least 91 and the navy was searching for another 49 people missing at sea after a barge carrying offshore workers sank in the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Tauktae, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/18\/cyclone-tauktae-india-landfall-evacuations-covid\">left a trail of destruction<\/a> after sweeping in from the Arabian sea on Monday, is the latest storm in what experts say is a growing number of ever-bigger storms in the region because of climate change warming its waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/cyclone-tauktae-death-toll-rises-after-huge-storm-hits-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue ships recover 26 bodies of offshore workers and 49 still missing after storm bringing 180km\/h winds leaves trail of destructionThe number of fatalities from a major cyclone on India\u2019s west coast has jumped to at least 91 and the navy was searchi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[455,62,1709,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32273,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions\/32273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}