{"id":6796,"date":"2019-08-12T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/myanmar-scrambles-to-rescue-flood-victims-as-landslide-kills-dozens"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T03:27:35","slug":"myanmar-scrambles-to-rescue-flood-victims-as-landslide-kills-dozens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar scrambles to rescue flood victims as landslide kills dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual monsoon has caused havoc in the south-east by flooding roads and destroying bridges<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar troops and rescue services have scrambled to provide aid in flood-hit parts of the country after rising waters caused by the annual monsoon rains forced residents to flee by boat and a landslide killed at least 52 people.<\/p>\n<p>The deluge has tested disaster response after the landslide on Friday in south-eastern Mon state was followed by heavy flooding that reached the roofs of houses and treetops in nearby towns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/myanmar-scrambles-to-rescue-flood-victims-as-landslide-kills-dozens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual monsoon has caused havoc in the south-east by flooding roads and destroying bridgesMyanmar troops and rescue services have scrambled to provide aid in flood-hit parts of the country after rising waters caused by the annual monsoon rains forc&#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":[82,157,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","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=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}