{"id":39792,"date":"2024-06-03T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39792"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:38:01","slug":"heat-kills-more-than-50-people-in-india-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39792","title":{"rendered":"Heat kills more than 50 people in India in three days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/6\/2\/heatstroke-kills-33-polling-staff-in-a-state-on-last-day-of-india-election\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">33 people died<\/a>&nbsp;in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These included people involved in the general election, including polling officials, security guards and sanitation staff &#8211; Saturday was the last phase of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Odisha (Orissa) state, about&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ani\/status\/1797452262299836790?s=48&amp;t=09Hkgq0t5LSc7xannymRU\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20 people died due<\/a>&nbsp;to heat stroke, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every five years, India holds its general election in the summer months of April and May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this year, the temperatures have been record-breaking, with the country experiencing frequent, more intense and longer heatwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around&nbsp;33 people died&nbsp;in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. These included people involved in the general election, including polling officials, security guards and sanitation staff &#8211; Saturday was the last phase of voting. In Odisha (Orissa) state, about&nbsp;20 people died due&nbsp;to heat stroke, officials said. Every five years, India holds its general election in the summer months of April and May. But this year, the temperatures have&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39792","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\/39792","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=39792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39794,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39792\/revisions\/39794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}