{"id":41772,"date":"2022-02-17T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/india-13-women-and-girls-die-after-falling-down-well-during-marriage-celebrations"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:15:17","slug":"india-13-women-and-girls-die-after-falling-down-well-during-marriage-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41772","title":{"rendered":"India: 13 women and girls die after falling down well during marriage celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims were sitting on an iron slab covering the well when it gave way; prime minister Narendra Modi said the accident was \u2018heart-wrenching\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen women and girls have died after accidentally falling down a well during marriage celebrations in northern India, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were sitting on an iron slab covering the well on Wednesday when it gave way, senior police officer Akhil Kumar told reporters in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/india-13-women-and-girls-die-after-falling-down-well-during-marriage-celebrations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims were sitting on an iron slab covering the well when it gave way; prime minister Narendra Modi said the accident was \u2018heart-wrenching\u2019Thirteen women and girls have died after accidentally falling down a well during marriage celebrations in north&#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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/41772","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=41772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772\/revisions\/41773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}