{"id":53455,"date":"2024-06-17T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53455"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:34:42","slug":"ecuador-landslide-kills-six-30-others-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53455","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador landslide kills six, 30 others missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least six people were killed and 30 others remained missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in a tourist region of southern Ecuador, authorities said Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The emergency occurred in the municipality of Banos de Agua Santa, a picturesque area in Tungurahua province near the base of an active volcano.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the rains in the sector, there was a landslide of a magnitude that affected people and machinery,&#8221; the National Secretariat of Risk Management said in a message to media.<\/p>\n<p>It gave an initial toll of six dead, 30 missing and another six people injured.<\/p>\n<p>Several seaside resorts were closed, along with the main road into the area.<\/p>\n<p>Torrential rains began on Saturday night and carried into Sunday, hampering rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weather conditions are not favorable&#8221; for clearing the road, warned state emergency agency ECU 911.<\/p>\n<p>Several rivers in the region were on the verge of overflowing, images sent to AFP by local residents showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were killed and 30 others remained missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in a tourist region of southern Ecuador, authorities said Sunday. The emergency occurred in the municipality of Banos de Agua Santa, a picturesque area in Tungurahua province near the base of an active volcano. &#8220;Due to the rains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1763,1764],"class_list":["post-53455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-30-others-missing","tag-ecuador-landslide-kills-six"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}