{"id":2654,"date":"2026-10-14T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:03:44","slug":"floods-kill-two-as-torrential-rain-hits-libyas-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Floods kill two as torrential rain hits Libya\u2019s Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Torrential downpours flooded the Libyan capital of Tripoli \u200bon Tuesday, killing two people, \u200caccording to a statement by authorities and a local TV channel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jumhouria Bank \u200bsaid an employee died due \u200bto an electrical shock. The \u2060Tripoli Red Crescent said in \u200ba statement it recovered the man\u2019s \u200bbody during the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams recovered the body of another man from his \u200bcar, which was submerged in \u200bthe floodwaters, according to a local TV \u200cstation.<\/p>\n<p>Fadel \u2060Abu Arqoub, the mayor of Central Tripoli, told the TV station that the rain lasted for \u200b2-1\/2 hours \u200band \u2060that the situation was catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned electricity company \u200bsaid it cut off power \u200bas \u2060a precaution in certain areas where rising water reached homes.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses \u2060said \u200bthe floodwaters inundated roads \u200band submerged numerous vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential downpours flooded the Libyan capital of Tripoli \u200bon Tuesday, killing two people, \u200caccording to a statement by authorities and a local TV channel. Jumhouria Bank \u200bsaid an employee died due \u200bto an electrical shock. The \u2060Tripoli Red Crescent said in \u200ba statement it recovered the man\u2019s \u200bbody during the flooding. Rescue teams recovered the body of another man from his \u200bcar, which was submerged in \u200bthe floodwaters, according to a local TV \u200cstation. Fadel \u2060Abu Arqoub, the mayor of Central Tripoli, told the TV station that the rain lasted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}