{"id":293425,"date":"2022-12-18T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T04:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=293425"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T06:45:27","slug":"16-killed-by-heavy-rains-in-s-africas-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=293425","title":{"rendered":"16 killed by heavy rains in S. Africa&#8217;s Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JOHANNESBURG, SANA- Heavy rains have killed 16 people in South Africa&#8217;s largest city Johannesburg in the last two weeks, an official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Thus far, 23 people have been rescued by Joburg Emergency Medical Services and 148 people have been rescued by the police search and rescue,&#8221; Executive Mayor of Johannesburg Mpho Phalatse said at a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The torrential rains have damaged property, fauna and flora, and essential infrastructure, particularly roads, traffic lights, buildings, substations, power stations and pipelines, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, SANA- Heavy rains have killed 16 people in South Africa&#8217;s largest city Johannesburg in the last two weeks, an official said on Saturday. &#8220;Thus far, 23 people have been rescued by Joburg Emergency Medical Services and 148 people have been rescued by the police search and rescue,&#8221; Executive Mayor of Johannesburg Mpho Phalatse said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}