{"id":11357,"date":"2025-05-30T05:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/?p=11357"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:13:40","slug":"sikkim-vehicle-carrying-tourists-meets-with-an-accident-along-chungthang-lachen-highway-search-and-rescue-operation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/sikkim-vehicle-carrying-tourists-meets-with-an-accident-along-chungthang-lachen-highway-search-and-rescue-operation-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim: Vehicle carrying tourists meets with an accident along Chungthang Lachen highway; Search and Rescue Operation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mangan, May 30 (IPR): A tourist vehicle met with an accident in the late evening of 29th May between Chungthang and Munshithang along Chungthang-Lachen highway. The vehicle, carrying a total of 10 tourists along with the driver plunged into Teesta river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local administration and police led by SDM Chungthang, SDPO Chungthang, along with the ITBP, Army and local people immediately sprung into action and began the search and rescue operation. A team of NDRF has also been deployed for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-id=\"11354\" src=\"https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-1024x682.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11354\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-1024x682.avif 1024w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-768x512.avif 768w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-330x220.avif 330w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-420x280.avif 420w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-615x410.avif 615w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-860x573.avif 860w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-760x506.avif 760w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1-150x100.avif 150w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6595-1.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"11355\" src=\"https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-768x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11355\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-768x1024.avif 768w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-225x300.avif 225w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-860x1147.avif 860w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-760x1013.avif 760w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-640x853.avif 640w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1-150x200.avif 150w, https:\/\/aguli.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6593-1.avif 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of the 11 occupants in the vehicle, 2 persons have been rescued and have been referred to STNM Hospital, Gangtok, after preliminary treatment at Chungthang field hospital. Search is still on for the remaining 9 persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District Collector Mangan and SP Mangan are monitoring the search and rescue operations closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source: Govt. Of Sikkim) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangan, May 30 (IPR): A tourist vehicle met with an accident in the late evening of 29th May between Chungthang and Munshithang along Chungthang-Lachen highway. The vehicle, carrying a total of 10 tourists along with the driver plunged into Teesta river. The local administration and police led by SDM Chungthang, SDPO Chungthang, along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[124,463,1997],"ppma_author":[1174],"class_list":{"0":"post-11357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northeast","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-sikkim","10":"tag-tourist"},"authors":[{"term_id":1174,"user_id":33,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kamaljamatia","display_name":"kamal jamatia","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/564a074770eb17d36f3af441d462b8a2a809599748f74220740b1d3b52879fcf?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Faguli.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FPHOTO-2023-09-14-08-30-32-3.jpg&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}