{"id":41027,"date":"2018-09-03T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41027"},"modified":"2018-09-03T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T11:02:26","slug":"rain-lightning-leave-16-dead-12-hurt-in-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rain-lightning-leave-16-dead-12-hurt-in-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, lightning leave 16 dead, 12 hurt in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow<br \/>\nAs many as 16 people died and 12 were injured in rain-related incidents across Uttar Pradesh since Saturday, officials said on Sunday, with the meteorological department predicting rainfall throughout the state for the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>Shahjahanpur bore the brunt of the weather\u2019s onslaught on Saturday as six persons, including four children, were killed in incidents of lightning strike while seven were injured.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the office of the UP Relief Commissioner said on Sunday, \u201cSix persons lost their lives in Shahjahanpur while three died in Sitapur district of the state.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTwo people died each in Auraiyya and Amethi. One person each died in Lakhimpur Khiri, Rae Bareli and Unnao. All the deaths took place yesterday,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen animals perished and 461 houses\/huts were damaged, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorological department said widespread rain is predicted in eastern and western parts of the state on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>District Magistrate Amrit Tripathi said some youngsters were grazing cattle in Shamsherpur village on Saturday when a sudden downpour forced them to take shelter under a tree where they were hit by lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow As many as 16 people died and 12 were injured in rain-related incidents across Uttar Pradesh since Saturday, officials said on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41029,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41027\/revisions\/41029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}