{"id":431548,"date":"2021-08-23T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431548"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T06:14:01","slug":"airport-in-kabul-still-tense-as-7-die-in-panicked-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airport-in-kabul-still-tense-as-7-die-in-panicked-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport in Kabul still tense as 7 die in panicked crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul\u2019s international airport since the Taliban takeover, the British military said on Sunday, as thousands were still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus. <\/p>\n<p>The Taliban moved to confront the first stirrings of armed resistance since capturing nearly all of Afghanistan in a matter of days earlier this month. Anti-Taliban fighters claimed to have seized three mountainous districts, and a prominent militia commander in the only province not yet under Taliban control pledged to fight back if attacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul\u2019s international airport since the Taliban takeover, the British military said on Sunday, as thousands were still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus. The Taliban moved to confront the first stirrings of armed resistance since capturing nearly all of Afghanistan in a matter of days earlier this month. Anti-Taliban fighters claimed to have seized three mountainous districts, and a prominent militia commander in the only province not yet under Taliban control pledged to fight back if attacked.<\/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-431548","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\/431548","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=431548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}