{"id":61599,"date":"2018-09-03T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61599"},"modified":"2018-09-03T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:11:42","slug":"floods-kill-31-displace-339742-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/floods-kill-31-displace-339742-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods kill 31, displace 339,742 in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Seasonal flooding across the country has killed 31 people and affected more than 300,000 others, according to the Myanmar government on Monday.<\/h2>\n<p>A total of 339,742 people evacuated their homes as heavy rains have raised water levels in 13 out of Myanmar\u2019s 15 regions in a last few months, according to the National Disaster Management Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 31 people were killed by the flood, which also destroyed 487 buildings, the committee said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee noted that 62,435 people are sheltering in 136 temporary camps as of Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Among those effected, about 50,000 were displaced as a result of the flood caused by a dam breach near a small town of Swar in Bago region, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Yangon on August 29.<\/p>\n<p>Seven people were reportedly killed as the dam breach flooded 85 villages in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar is annually hit by serve flooding during the rainy season that results in casualties and damage to farmlands.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal flooding across the country has killed 31 people and affected more than 300,000 others, according to the Myanmar government on Monday. A total of 339,742 people evacuated their homes as heavy rains have raised water levels in 13 out of Myanmar\u2019s 15 regions in a last few months, according to the National Disaster Management &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,14],"tags":[14343,9827],"class_list":["post-61599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-world","tag-flood","tag-myanmar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}