{"id":70418,"date":"2018-07-04T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70418"},"modified":"2018-07-04T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T10:10:28","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-15-in-eastern-punjab-after-long-spells-of-monsoon-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70418","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 15 in eastern Punjab, after long spells of monsoon rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, July 4(TNS): Rescue official and police confirmed on Wednesday that the death toll in eastern Punjab has risen to 15 after heavy monsoon rains continued for a long spell of two days.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore which has seen the heaviest spell of monsoon rains since in 40 years, gave a demonstration of flooding streets all across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities told that most deaths were caused by electric wires and power plants and flood water caving in the homes of remote areas of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore which has been called as Paris of Pakistan by former Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif gave a picture of Venice to the citizens as the whole city was submerged in water-floods and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Many students who had exams had to swim through water which was rising above waist-length to reach their schools and colleges.<\/p>\n<p>In more than 35 years of their\u00a0regime, the Punjab government has long struggled to tackle with monsoon rains which trigger flash-floods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, July 4(TNS): Rescue official and police confirmed on Wednesday that the death toll in eastern Punjab has risen to 15 after heavy monsoon rains continued for a long spell of two days. Lahore which has seen the heaviest spell of monsoon rains since in 40 years, gave a demonstration of flooding streets all across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70420,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70418\/revisions\/70420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}