{"id":430978,"date":"2021-08-17T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430978"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:11:07","slug":"us-forces-fire-in-air-to-stop-jostling-afghans-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-forces-fire-in-air-to-stop-jostling-afghans-at-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces fire in air to stop jostling Afghans at Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US troops fired shots into the air at Kabul airport on Monday as thousands of Afghans crowded onto the tarmac desperate to leave the country a day after the Taliban takeover of the country. &#8220;The crowd was out of control. The firing was only done to defuse the chaos,&#8221; a US official told Reuters by phone. <\/p>\n<p>US forces are in charge at the airport and are helping in the evacuation of embassy staff and other civilians. &#8220;I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,&#8221; a witness told AFP. <\/p>\n<p>Several photographs and videos on social media show Afghans crowding the airport trying to get out of the country after Taliban insurgents entered the capital on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US troops fired shots into the air at Kabul airport on Monday as thousands of Afghans crowded onto the tarmac desperate to leave the country a day after the Taliban takeover of the country. &#8220;The crowd was out of control. The firing was only done to defuse the chaos,&#8221; a US official told Reuters by phone. US forces are in charge at the airport and are helping in the evacuation of embassy staff and other civilians. &#8220;I feel very scared here. They are firing lots of shots into the air,&#8221; a witness told AFP. Several photographs and videos on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}