{"id":27028,"date":"2022-09-07T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27028"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:20:16","slug":"eighteen-die-in-pakistans-unprecedented-floods-taking-toll-to-1343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27028","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen die in Pakistan&#8217;s unprecedented floods, taking toll to 1,343"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7  &#8211; Eighteen more people have died in Pakistan, authorities said on Wednesday, taking to 1,343 the toll in unprecedented floods that have inundated more than a third of the South Asian nation, making hundreds of thousands homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected in the disaster blamed on climate change, which officials estimate to have caused losses running into a minimum of $10 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the affected are from the southern province of Sindh, where Pakistan&#8217;s largest freshwater lake is dangerously close to bursting its banks, even after having been breached in an operation that displaced 100,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National disaster officials said eight childen were among the dead in the last 24 hours. The floods were brought by record monsoon rains and glacier melt in Pakistan&#8217;s northern mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7 &#8211; Eighteen more people have died in Pakistan, authorities said on Wednesday, taking to 1,343 the toll in unprecedented floods that have inundated more than a third of the South Asian nation, making hundreds of thousands homeless. As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected in the disaster blamed on climate change, which officials estimate to have caused losses running into a minimum of $10 billion. Many of the affected are from the southern province of Sindh, where Pakistan&#8217;s largest freshwater lake is dangerously close to bursting its banks,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27030,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028\/revisions\/27030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}