{"id":304696,"date":"2018-10-26T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304696"},"modified":"2018-10-26T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:06:35","slug":"jordan-18-killed-in-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jordan-18-killed-in-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: 18 killed in Flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304697 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01-706x420.jpg 706w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_20181026-113124__01.jpg 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 18 people were killed and several others were injured on Thursday when flash floods swept away a group of teachers and students at the hot springs near the Dead Sea,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the private school students and their teachers were caught off guard when sudden torrential rains unleashed a flood surge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident happened when school bus with a group of teachers and students were touring the dead sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the Officials, the death toll is expected to increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Israel\u2019s military, it had sent helicopters carrying a rescue team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister of Jordan Omar Razzaz rushed to the scene, to oversee a part of the rescue operation and visited the wounded at an area hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were killed and several others were injured on Thursday when flash floods swept away a group of teachers and students at the hot springs near the Dead Sea, According to the reports, the private school students and their teachers were caught off guard when sudden torrential rains unleashed a flood surge. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9032,9030,9029,9031],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304696"}],"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=304696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304699,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304696\/revisions\/304699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}