{"id":32378,"date":"2021-05-23T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T01:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/23\/runners-dead-extreme-weather-hits-mountain-running-race-gansu-china"},"modified":"2021-05-23T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T05:04:43","slug":"at-least-20-dead-as-extreme-weather-hits-mountain-running-race-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32378","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one dead as extreme weather hits ultramarathon in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners at high-altitude, 100km race in Yellow River stone forest in Gansu province<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one people have died after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100km (62-mile) ultramarathon in a mountainous part of northern China.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 rescuers and army personnel used thermal-imaging drones and radar detectors to try to find runners caught by the storm in the race in Yellow River stone forest near Baiyin in north-western Gansu province, officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/23\/runners-dead-extreme-weather-hits-mountain-running-race-gansu-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners at high-altitude, 100km race in Yellow River stone forest in Gansu provinceTwenty-one people have died after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100km (62-mile) ultramarathon in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,708,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-extreme-sports","category-extreme-weather"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions\/32384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}