{"id":309119,"date":"2019-02-08T04:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309119"},"modified":"2019-02-08T04:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T04:45:04","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-snow-strong-winds-hampers-rescue-operation-in-kulgam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-snow-strong-winds-hampers-rescue-operation-in-kulgam\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Snow, strong winds hampers rescue operation in Kulgam"},"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-309120 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/snow-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/snow-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/snow.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said that the rescue operation for the trapped people was hindered by strong winds and heavy accumulation of snow on the path have made it difficult for the teams who are trying to reach the site of an avalanche that buried a police post near Jawahar Tunnel in Kulgam district on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted on Thursday, \u201cAvalanche has hit the police post at JT area #Kulgam.Rescue teams on job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least ten people were reported missing after an avalanche hit the police post near the tunnel. The missing people include six policemen, two fire service personnel and two civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, the strategic 300 km-long road remained closed for the third consecutive day on Friday due to heavy snowfall and landslides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, no traffic was allowed today on the highway due to multiple avalanches in the Bannihal sector and landslides in the Ramsoo-Ramban area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said that the rescue operation for the trapped people was hindered by strong winds and heavy accumulation of snow on the path have made it difficult for the teams who are trying to reach the site of an avalanche that buried a police post near Jawahar Tunnel in Kulgam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309119"}],"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=309119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309121,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309119\/revisions\/309121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}