{"id":73516,"date":"2025-08-19T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/aug\/19\/drone-footage-shows-extent-of-devastation-left-by-floods-in-pakistan-video"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:17:46","slug":"drone-footage-shows-extent-of-devastation-left-by-floods-in-pakistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73516","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage shows extent of devastation left by floods in Pakistan \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 fatalities were reported in the Buner district of the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after heavy rainfall triggered devastating floods. According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s provincial disaster management authority, the fatalities include 28 women and 21 children. Officials said Buner was struck by a cloudburst, a rare weather phenomenon in which over 100mm of rain falls within an hour over a small area<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/pakistan-monsoon-floods-death-toll\">Death toll after monsoon floods in Pakistan rises to more than 320<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/aug\/19\/drone-footage-shows-extent-of-devastation-left-by-floods-in-pakistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 fatalities were reported in the Buner district of the north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after heavy rainfall triggered devastating floods. According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s provincial disaster management authority, the fatalities &#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":[455,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/73516","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=73516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73517,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73516\/revisions\/73517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}