{"id":40457,"date":"2022-01-08T23:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/08\/at-least-22-stranded-tourists-dead-at-pakistan-hill-station-after-heavy-snowfall-video"},"modified":"2022-01-08T23:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:52:43","slug":"at-least-22-stranded-tourists-dead-at-pakistan-hill-station-after-heavy-snowfall-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40457","title":{"rendered":"At least 22 stranded tourists dead at Pakistan hill station after heavy snowfall \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in their vehicles in northern&nbsp;Pakistan, where thousands had flocked to enjoy the snow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,000 vehicles are still stranded in Murree, 40 miles north-east of the capital Islamabad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The local people are delivering blankets and food. Now we are only allowing vehicles carrying blankets and food towards Murree,&#8217; Sheikh Rashid Ahmed,&nbsp;Pakistan&#8217;s interior minister, said.<\/p>\n<p>Army platoons and paramilitary forces have been deployed to help the civil administration in rescue operations, he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/08\/at-least-22-stranded-tourists-dead-at-pakistan-hill-station-after-heavy-snowfall-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in their vehicles in northern&nbsp;Pakistan, where thousands had flocked to enjoy the snow.&nbsp;Some 1,000 vehicles are still stranded in Murree, 40 miles north-east of the capita&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[455,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-pakistan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40458,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions\/40458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}