{"id":6344,"date":"2025-05-06T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:05:17","slug":"heavy-rains-and-thunderstorms-kill-at-least-14-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains and thunderstorms kill at least 14 in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 14 people died and 16 others were injured in the past two days as heavy pre-monsoon showers lashed India\u2019s western state of Gujarat, state officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Television visuals showed fallen trees and damaged crops as heavy lightning and thunderstorms impacted several districts.<\/p>\n<p>The unseasonal rain across most of the state was driven by a cyclonic circulation in the neighbouring parts of Pakistan and India\u2019s Rajasthan state, according to India\u2019s Meteorological Department.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecaster has forecast more rain, thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds across Gujarat until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials told Reuters that 14 people were killed and 16 injured so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are awaiting reports on crop damage,\u201d said Anju Sharma, secretary of the state\u2019s agriculture department. Gujarat is a major producer of cotton, cumin and rice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistrict administrations will assess the losses and send us their reports today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, unseasonable heavy rain across eastern and central India and parts of Nepal killed more than 100 people.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 people died and 16 others were injured in the past two days as heavy pre-monsoon showers lashed India\u2019s western state of Gujarat, state officials said on Tuesday. Television visuals showed fallen trees and damaged crops as heavy lightning and thunderstorms impacted several districts. The unseasonal rain across most of the state was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}