{"id":58992,"date":"2023-10-05T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/oct\/05\/glacial-lake-bursts-its-banks-triggering-flash-floods-in-north-east-india-video"},"modified":"2023-10-05T20:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:16:04","slug":"glacial-lake-bursts-its-banks-triggering-flash-floods-in-north-east-india-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58992","title":{"rendered":"Glacial lake bursts its banks, triggering flash floods in north-east India \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homes were destroyed, bridges collapsed and at least 14 people were killed in the Indian state of Sikkim after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering floods in a mountain valley. <\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed the muddy flood waters surging into residential areas, destroying houses and partially collapsing a dam<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/05\/india-floods-death-toll-lhonak-lake-injuries-missing-sikkim\">India floods: 14 killed and 102 missing after lake overflows and highways washed away<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/oct\/05\/glacial-lake-bursts-its-banks-triggering-flash-floods-in-north-east-india-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homes were destroyed, bridges collapsed and at least 14 people were killed in the Indian state of Sikkim after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering floods in a mountain valley. Video footage showed the muddy flood waters surg&#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":[455,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","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\/58992","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=58992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58993,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58992\/revisions\/58993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}