{"id":34797,"date":"2021-08-05T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/lightning-strike-kills-bangladesh-wedding-party-members"},"modified":"2021-08-05T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:11:09","slug":"lightning-strike-kills-at-least-16-on-way-to-wedding-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34797","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike kills at least 16 on way to wedding in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group killed as they disembarked from boat to take refuge from thunderstorm<\/p>\n<p>A lightning strike has killed at least 16 people who were travelling to a wedding and injured several others in Bangladesh, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>The bride was not with the group when the lightning struck on Wednesday in Shibganj in the western Chapainawabganj district, according to Sakib Al-Rabby, a local government official.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/lightning-strike-kills-bangladesh-wedding-party-members\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group killed as they disembarked from boat to take refuge from thunderstormA lightning strike has killed at least 16 people who were travelling to a wedding and injured several others in Bangladesh, according to local officials.The bride was not with t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2359,"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":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34797","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\/2359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34797\/revisions\/34798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}