{"id":126761,"date":"2025-04-10T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=126761"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:33:32","slug":"hungarian-tourist-missing-for-3-weeks-in-meghalaya-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=126761","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Tourist, Missing For 3 Weeks In Meghalaya, Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a Hungarian tourist, who had been missing since March 29, was found in a decomposed state in Meghalaya&#8217;s Cherrapunji, police sources told NDTV. The Meghalaya police had launched a search-and-rescue operation to find Zsolt Puskas.<\/p>\n<p>After going missing for almost four days, the Hungarian Embassy alerted the local police on April 2, after which the cops launched a search operation along with Home Guards, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and local volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>His body, discovered in a partially decomposed state, was found in a remote, steep-sloped area, in the Ramdait village, along the route to Tyrna in Shella, in Meghalaya&#8217;s Cherrapunji, suggesting a possible accidental fall.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources informed that a probe revealed that Zsolt had checked into a hotel in Laitumkhrah at 3:45 AM on March 29 and checked out just hours later at 9:00 AM. He then boarded a local taxi, which dropped him at Mawsahew, near Sohra, by noon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hungarian tourist seen on CCTV\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/rkalb22g_hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25.jpeg?im=FitAndFill,algorithm=dnn,width=1200,height=738\" title=\"Hungarian tourist seen on CCTV\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption\">The Hungarian tourist was seen on CCTV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>From there, he reportedly began a solo trek toward Mawkawir, with plans to reach Nongriat, carrying only a backpack and almost three weeks later, his body was found in the jungles of Ramdait village.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe body of a Hungarian tourist, who had been missing since March 29, was found in a decomposed state in Meghalaya&#8217;s Cherrapunji, police sources told NDTV. The Meghalaya police had launched a search-and-rescue operation to find Zsolt Puskas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a Hungarian tourist, who had been missing since March 29, was found in a decomposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":126762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo.jpeg",1024,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-240x300.jpeg",240,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-768x960.jpeg",640,800,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-819x1024.jpeg",640,800,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo.jpeg",1024,1280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo.jpeg",1024,1280,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/er63pld_missing-hungarian-tourist_625x300_10_April_25-vAINvo-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}