{"id":6015,"date":"2024-07-28T16:32:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2024-07-28T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T10:47:35","slug":"eleven-killed-in-central-china-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/eleven-killed-in-central-china-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven killed in central China landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A landslide caused by flooding in central China&#8217;s Hunan province destroyed a local guesthouse and killed 11 people on Sunday, with at least one person still missing, state media reported.<br \/>\nOfficial broadcaster CCTV said it had &#8220;been initially confirmed that 18 people were buried&#8221;.<br \/>\nAs of Sunday afternoon, 11 bodies and six injured survivors had been recovered, it added.<br \/>\nThe landslide was caused by flash flooding on a mountain, according to CCTV.<\/p>\n<p>More than 240 emergency personnel had been dispatched to the scene, with &#8220;rescue work continuing urgently&#8221;, the broadcaster said.<\/p>\n<p>A video published by the state-run Beijing Youth Daily showed a swath of mud and debris cutting through a green hillside, and an uprooted tree lying in front of a three-storey building.<br \/>\nChina has suffered a summer of extreme weather, with flash floods in the north and southwest killing at least 20 people earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In May, a highway in southern China collapsed after days of rain, leaving 48 dead.<br \/>\nScientists say climate change is making extreme weather more frequent and intense, and China is the world&#8217;s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Long dependent on polluting energy sources such as coal, Beijing has pledged to bring emissions of planet-heating carbon dioxide to a peak by 2030 and to net zero by 2060.<br \/>\nIt is already the world&#8217;s largest producer of renewable energy, with research this month showing China is building almost twice as much solar and wind power capacity as the rest of the world combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landslide caused by flooding in central China&#8217;s Hunan province destroyed a local guesthouse and killed 11 people on Sunday, with at least one person still missing, state media reported. Official broadcaster CCTV said it had &#8220;been initially confirmed that 18 people were buried&#8221;. As of Sunday afternoon, 11 bodies and six injured survivors had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}