{"id":13650,"date":"2021-02-08T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:49:26","slug":"uttrakhand-tragedy-kashmiri-engineer-among-missing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/uttrakhand-tragedy-kashmiri-engineer-among-missing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttrakhand tragedy: Kashmiri engineer among missing people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An engineer from Kashmir who was working in a power project in Uttarakhand\u2019s Chamoli district has been missing since the bursting of a glacier on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 14 people have been killed and over 170 are still missing, after a part of a glacier burst in Uttarakhand\u2019s Chamoli district on Sunday, triggering an avalanche and massive flash floods in the Alaknanda river system that washed away hydroelectric stations and five bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the missing persons, there is a Project Engineer from Kashmir. The friends of the missing engineer Basharat Ahmed Zargar, a resident of Soura Srinagar said that since the bursting of the glacier, the Kashmiri Engineer&nbsp;is untraceable as his phone is switched off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe pray to Almighty God that he is fine and safe,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family members sought help from Jammu Kashmir Government and appealed it to help them in tracing him out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pertinently, the burst glacier swept away roads while 170 people -148 employed at the NTPC plant and 22 at Rishiganga \u2013 are still missing. (KNT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engineer from Kashmir who was working in a power project in Uttarakhand\u2019s Chamoli district has been missing since the bursting of a glacier on Sunday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}