{"id":301292,"date":"2018-08-09T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301292"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T10:41:10","slug":"at-least-15-killed-as-heavy-rains-wreak-havoc-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/at-least-15-killed-as-heavy-rains-wreak-havoc-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 15 killed as heavy rains wreak havoc in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301293 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-1068x715.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain-627x420.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kerala-rain.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>At least 15 people were killed in Kerala as heavy rains triggered landslides across the state. Among all the districts, Idukki remained the worst affected district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A situation of the flood has emerged after one of the five shutters of Idukki dam was opened after 26 years to drain out excess rainwater. This leads to an increase in water level in the Periyar river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state government has asked for help from the army in Wayanad and Idukki districts.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has moved for rescue operations. More teams of NDRF are expected to arrive soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister has called for an emergency meeting regarding aforesaid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools and colleges would remain shut across different areas of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 15 people were killed in Kerala as heavy rains triggered landslides across the state. Among all the districts, Idukki remained the worst affected district. A situation of the flood has emerged after one of the five shutters of Idukki dam was opened after 26 years to drain out excess rainwater. This leads to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[4088,2193,4086,466,2103,1542,4087,4089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301294,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301292\/revisions\/301294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}