{"id":2276,"date":"2021-11-11T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T05:30:10","slug":"heavy-rains-lash-sri-lanka-16-people-killed-thousands-displaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/heavy-rains-lash-sri-lanka-16-people-killed-thousands-displaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains lash Sri Lanka, 16 killed, thousands displaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, Nov 11, (Asia Free Press): At least 16 people have died in floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka following more than a week of heavy rain on Wednesday, according to the local media <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster management center in a statement said more than 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes and have taken shelter in relatives\u2019 homes or in government-run relief centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most deaths resulted from drowning and lightning strikes. At least one person was reported missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The months of October and November are usually the northeastern monsoon season in Sri Lanka. However, higher-than-usual rainfall has been reported in most parts of the country this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, Nov 11, (Asia Free Press): At least 16 people have died in floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka following more than a week of heavy rain on Wednesday, according to the local media The disaster management center in a statement said more than 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes and have taken [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,396,2],"tags":[723,1053,1052,1051],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-latest","category-news","tag-floods","tag-monsoon","tag-mudslides","tag-srilanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}