{"id":103942,"date":"2017-08-16T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=103942"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:10:13","slug":"300-dead-600-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/300-dead-600-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"300 dead -600 missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s president issued a desperate appeal for help on Tuesday, a day after flooding ravaged the country&#8217;s capital, killing more than 300 people and leaving hundreds more missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Touring Regent, one of the worst-hit areas, President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears as he said the devastation was &#8220;overwhelming us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WEB_PHOTO_SIERRA_LEONE_Ernest_Koroma_15082017.jpg\" alt=\"WEB_PHOTO_SIERRA_LEONE_Ernest_Koroma_15082017\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Entire communities have been wiped out,&#8221; Koroma said. &#8220;We need urgent support now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the city began to bury its dead, foreign governments began mobilising aid, with Israel pledging to help provide clean water, medicines and blankets and other essentials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/081517_abc_mudslide.jpg\" alt=\"300 dead -600 missing\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/081517_abc_mudslide.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/081517_abc_mudslide-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British International Development Secretary Priti Patel said she was working with the Sierra Leone government to establish what steps to take.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heavy rains streaming down a hill in Regent triggered a landslide that engulfed homes three or four storeys high, many of them built illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s president issued a desperate appeal for help on Tuesday, a day after flooding ravaged the country&#8217;s capital, killing more than 300 people and leaving hundreds more missing. Touring Regent, one of the worst-hit areas, President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears as he said the devastation was &#8220;overwhelming us&#8221;. &#8220;Entire communities have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[52103,52105,52107,52106,507,52104],"class_list":["post-103942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-300-dead-600-missing","tag-desperate-appeal","tag-ernest-bai-koroma","tag-flooding","tag-president","tag-sierra-leones-president"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sierra-leone-landslide-gty-ml-170815_16x9_608.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}