{"id":303196,"date":"2018-09-25T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303196"},"modified":"2018-09-25T05:15:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T05:15:26","slug":"himachal-pradesh-45-people-missing-in-lahaul-spiti-as-heavy-snowfall-lashes-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-pradesh-45-people-missing-in-lahaul-spiti-as-heavy-snowfall-lashes-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal Pradesh: 45 people missing in Lahaul Spiti as heavy snowfall lashes region"},"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-303197 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rohtang-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/rohtang-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/rohtang-696x409.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/rohtang-714x420.jpg 714w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/rohtang.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In tragic incident, 45 people, including 35 students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee who had gone for trekking in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s mountainous Lahaul and Spiti district have been reported missing after heavy snowfall in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the group had gone for a trek to the Hampta pass and were supposed to return to Manali However, they have not returned till now and also fail to establish any contact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Himachal Pradesh has seen heavy rain in many areas. Higher altitude regions of the state have also witnessed heavy snowfall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least five people died, and many were injured in separate incidents as heavy rain pounded Kullu, Kangra and Chamba districts on Monday, the officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, schools in various districts of Himachal Pradesh have been directed to remain closed on Tuesday as a precautionary measure.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tragic incident, 45 people, including 35 students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee who had gone for trekking in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s mountainous Lahaul and Spiti district have been reported missing after heavy snowfall in the region. According to the sources, the group had gone for a trek to the Hampta pass and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2898,2009,2014],"tags":[1340,5199,5200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303196"}],"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=303196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303198,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303196\/revisions\/303198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}