{"id":47484,"date":"2026-10-07T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47484"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:21:01","slug":"nepal-suspends-search-for-flood-victims-including-6-sa-citizens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nepal-suspends-search-for-flood-victims-including-6-sa-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal suspends search for flood victims, including 6 SA citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nepal has suspended search and rescue operations for thousands of people still missing in catastrophic floods that hit the Himalayan nation, including six South African nationals.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe country has called the mudslide, and flash floods a &#8216;Himalayan tsunami&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div>\nMore than 1 400 people died in the floods that originated along Nepal&#8217;s border with China&#8217;s Tibet region.<\/div>\n<div>\nNepal has officially ended its search and rescue operations, and officials say the country is now entering the search and rehabilitation phase.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating floods that struck the Himalayan nation on August 26 swept away entire towns and villages.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal says 5 200 people went missing and that officials are figuring out how to legally declare those missing persons dead.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47486,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47484","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Nepal has suspended search and rescue operations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47487,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47484\/revisions\/47487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}