{"id":345,"date":"2007-07-26T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T13:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/07\/26\/storm-sweeps-bangladesh-one-dead-500-injured\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T13:26:40","slug":"storm-sweeps-bangladesh-one-dead-500-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Storm sweeps Bangladesh; one dead, 500 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA &#8211; A powerful storm flattened hundreds of homes in eastern Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring 500 people, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Three crew were missing after a Bangladeshi ship carrying more than 1,400 tonnes of cement sank in the Bay of Bengal near Chittagong port, 300 km southeast of the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>The ship sank quickly, but 10 of the crew were rescued, port officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 80 kph storm accompanied by rain swept through several districts, uprooting power and telephone poles and damaging crops.<\/p>\n<p>Storms kill hundreds of people in Bangladesh every year.<\/p>\n<p>Annual monsoon rains have eased over the past two days, but the country&#8217;s major rivers Padma and Brahmaputra were rising, raising fears of widespread flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA &#8211; A powerful storm flattened hundreds of homes in eastern Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring 500 people, police said. Three crew were missing after a Bangladeshi ship carrying more than 1,400 tonnes of cement sank in the Bay of Bengal near Chittagong port, 300 km southeast of the capital, Dhaka. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[50,10,11,46],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}