{"id":431277,"date":"2021-08-19T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431277"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:20:03","slug":"taliban-rings-airport-protests-turn-violent-in-afghanistan-three-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taliban-rings-airport-protests-turn-violent-in-afghanistan-three-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban rings airport; protests turn violent in Afghanistan, three dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the militant group tried to set up a government and Western countries stepped up evacuations of diplomats and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Over a dozen people were injured after Taliban militants opened fire on protesters in the eastern city, two witnesses and a former police official told Reuters. The witnesses said the deaths took place when local residents tried to install Afghanistan&#8217;s national flag at a square in Jalalabad, some 150 km (90 miles) from the capital on the main road to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesmen were not immediately reachable for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the militant group tried to set up a government and Western countries stepped up evacuations of diplomats and civilians. Over a dozen people were injured after Taliban militants opened fire on protesters in the eastern city, two witnesses and a former police official told Reuters. The witnesses said the deaths took place when local residents tried to install Afghanistan&#8217;s national flag at a square in Jalalabad, some 150 km (90 miles) from the capital on the main road to Pakistan. [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431277","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=431277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}