{"id":73473,"date":"2025-08-16T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/flash-floods-pakistan-huge-cloudburst-flooding-landslides-india"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:32:34","slug":"flash-floods-kill-at-least-159-people-in-pakistan-after-huge-cloudburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73473","title":{"rendered":"Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after huge cloudburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search for the missing continues in north-west after downpour also sparks deadly flooding and landslides in India<\/p>\n<p>A massive cloudburst has triggered flash floods in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 157 people, as rescuers continued to search for people missing after floods in neighbouring India.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Suhail, a provincial emergency services spokesperson, said 78 bodies were recovered from various parts of Buner district in the north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by noon on Friday, and a further 79 were pulled later from the rubble of collapsed homes and flooded villages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/15\/flash-floods-pakistan-huge-cloudburst-flooding-landslides-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search for the missing continues in north-west after downpour also sparks deadly flooding and landslides in IndiaA massive cloudburst has triggered flash floods in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 157 people, as rescuers continued to search for pe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4894,"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":[2331,455,313,62,432,1612,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-india","category-kashmir","category-landslides","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\/73473","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\/4894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73473\/revisions\/73474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}