{"id":11082,"date":"2017-10-16T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/16\/storm-ophelia-second-person-killed-in-ireland-police-confirm-latest-updates\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:02:35","slug":"storm-ophelia-second-person-killed-in-ireland-police-confirm-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11082","title":{"rendered":"Storm Ophelia: second person killed in Ireland, police confirm &#8211; latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow latest updates as Tropical Storm Ophelia batters Ireland, with homes and businesses without power and schools closed 3.02pm BST Irish Police have confirmed that a man in his 30s was killed while clearing a tree with a chain saw in Ballybrado, Tipperary. Irish death toll in #Ophelia rises to 2. Police say Tipperary man in 30s mortally wounded by own chainsaw as he cleared a felled tree. pic.twitter.com\/bIaim1f8Xw 2.58pm BST There are reports of a second death from the storm. A man was killed trying to clear a tree with a chainsaw in Tipperary, according to the Irish Daily Mirror. BREAKING: A man has been killed in Tipperary after trying to clear away a tree with a chainsaw. More to follow. #OpheliaSecond storm related death.@GardaTraffic report incident at Cahir, Co Tipp; man in his 30s killed clearing fallen trees.#Ophelia Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2017\/oct\/16\/ex-hurricane-ophelia-landfall-tropical-storm-ireland-red-weather-warning-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Ophelia: second person killed in Ireland, police confirm &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow latest updates as Tropical Storm Ophelia batters Ireland, with homes and businesses without power and schools closed 3.02pm BST Irish Police have confirmed that a man in his 30s was killed while clearing a tree with a chain saw in Ballybrado, Tipperary. Irish death toll in #Ophelia rises to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}