{"id":49653,"date":"2022-10-26T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T01:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/26\/cyclone-sitrang-24-dead-as-bangladesh-seeks-to-restore-power-to-millions"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T01:04:29","slug":"cyclone-sitrang-24-dead-as-bangladesh-seeks-to-restore-power-to-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49653","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Sitrang: 24 dead as Bangladesh seeks to restore power to millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged by storm that flooded cities and forced a million to evacuate<\/p>\n<p>At least 24 people have died and millions were without power after Cyclone Sitrang struck Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the deaths were from falling trees, police and government officials said, with two dying in the north on the Jamuna river when their boat sank. A Myanmar national working on a ship also died by falling off the deck, an official said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/26\/cyclone-sitrang-24-dead-as-bangladesh-seeks-to-restore-power-to-millions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged by storm that flooded cities and forced a million to evacuateAt least 24 people have died and millions were without power after Cyclone Sitrang struck Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million p&#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":[327,455,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-extreme-weather","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\/49653","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=49653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49654,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions\/49654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}