{"id":56499,"date":"2023-07-07T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/07\/pakistan-monsoon-floods-punjab-province-deaths"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:29:29","slug":"at-least-50-dead-in-pakistan-monsoon-floods-since-end-of-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56499","title":{"rendered":"At least 50 dead in Pakistan monsoon floods since end of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the deaths were in Punjab province and mainly caused by electrocution and building collapses<\/p>\n<p>At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The summer monsoon between June and September brings 70-80% of south Asia\u2019s annual rainfall every year. It is vital for the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region of about 2 billion people \u2013 but it also triggers landslides and floods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/07\/pakistan-monsoon-floods-punjab-province-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the deaths were in Punjab province and mainly caused by electrocution and building collapsesAt least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"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":[2331,65,455,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","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\/56499","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\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56500,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56499\/revisions\/56500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}