{"id":245049,"date":"2022-10-09T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=245049"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:55:00","slug":"video-old-man-risks-being-swallowed-in-quicksand-to-fetch-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/video-old-man-risks-being-swallowed-in-quicksand-to-fetch-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Old Man Risks Being Swallowed In Quicksand To Fetch Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Video: Old Man Risks Being Swallowed In Quicksand To Fetch Drinking Water\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Video: Old Man Risks Being Swallowed In Quicksand To Fetch Drinking Water\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Video: Old Man Risks Being Swallowed In Quicksand To Fetch Drinking Water\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/iam73fmg_hamirpur-man-trapped-in-swamp_625x300_09_October_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-10-09T18:55:29+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=659050&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/Oldman_117628_94182_2500.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T0M41S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/iam73fmg_hamirpur-man-trapped-in-swamp_625x300_09_October_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=659050&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The viral video is said to be of Bacha Kahani village in UP&#8217;s Hamirpur district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Lucknow: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>A shocking video of an old man being rescued from the silt of a river in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Hamirpur has raised questions about access to basic resources like drinking water, for which many still have to risk their lives every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the now viral video clip, an old man can be seen sunk waist deep in quicksand while a man tries to pull him out by asking him to hold on to a wooden stick. A steel pot can be seen next to the old man, with which he had gone to the river to collect water.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have raised questions over the government&#8217;s promise of tap water to every household when such a situation prevails in several areas. A cop can also be seen smiling and recording the rescue effort on his phone, drawing criticism on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Two villagers who went to the banks of the Ken river to fetch water got trapped in a swamp of silt and were rescued by villagers and the local administration.<\/p>\n<p>The viral video is said to be of Bacha Kahani village under the Sisolar police station area of Hamirpur district.<\/p>\n<p>Locals say that the tap water is saline and unfit for drinking, so the villagers are forced to draw water from the river. &#8220;We have always gone to the river for fresh water,&#8221; the rescued man said in another video.<\/p>\n<p>Another local pointed out that the state&#8217;s Jal Shakti minister had visited Hamirpur recently regarding the Namami Gange\u00a0mission and assured locals that they would receive tap water soon. &#8220;Not sure how that is going to materialise,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/video-man-rescued-from-swamp-while-smiling-cop-records-on-phone-3415821\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The viral video is said to be of Bacha Kahani village in UP&#8217;s Hamirpur district. Lucknow: A shocking video of an old man being rescued from the silt of a river in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Hamirpur has raised questions about access to basic resources like drinking water, for which many still have to risk their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[292305,292307,292306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}