{"id":178406,"date":"2025-07-05T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=178406"},"modified":"2025-07-05T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:23:17","slug":"two-iaf-personnel-drown-in-bhimtal-lake-as-heavy-rain-pounds-uttarakhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/07\/05\/two-iaf-personnel-drown-in-bhimtal-lake-as-heavy-rain-pounds-uttarakhand.html","title":{"rendered":"Two IAF personnel drown in Bhimtal lake as heavy rain pounds Uttarakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178407\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/07\/2-IAF-Miss-390x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bhimtal: Amid heavy rain in Uttarakhand, India, two Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel drowned in a swollen lake in Bhimtal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, officials said Prince Yadav (22) from Pathankot, Punjab, and Sahil Kumar (23) from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, were part of a group of eight IAF personnel, including four women, vacationing in Nainital, Circle Officer Pramod Shah said.<\/p>\n<p>Locals joined the police in the rescue operation to pull Yadav and Kumar\u2019s bodies out of the lake after a struggle that lasted for almost an hour, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The rain, which has been battering the state, has affected daily life with the closure of more than a hundred roads across the state, disrupting the Chardham yatra and causing food grain shortages in some villages in the Geeth area of Uttarkashi district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhimtal: Amid heavy rain in Uttarakhand, India, two Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel drowned in a swollen lake in Bhimtal. According to Kashmir Media Service, officials said Prince Yadav (22) from Pathankot, Punjab, and Sahil Kumar (23) from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, were part of a group of eight IAF personnel, including four women, vacationing in Nainital, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}