{"id":432359,"date":"2021-08-27T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432359"},"modified":"2021-08-27T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:00:53","slug":"blasts-strike-kabul-airport-kill-at-least-13-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/blasts-strike-kabul-airport-kill-at-least-13-including-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasts strike Kabul airport; kill at least 13, including children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two explosions outside Kabul\u2019s international airport caused an unknown number of casualties and deaths less than a week before US forces are due to depart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of US &amp; civilian casualties\u201d were caused by one blast outside the Abbey Gate used by people seeking to flee Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. <\/p>\n<p>He called it a \u201ccomplex attack\u201d and it came after US and Nato officials warned their citizens to avoid heading toward the airport. Reports said at least 13 people were killed, citing a Taliban security official, and that Taliban guards were wounded in the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred around the time President Joe Biden was scheduled to meet with his national security team about the situation in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two explosions outside Kabul\u2019s international airport caused an unknown number of casualties and deaths less than a week before US forces are due to depart. \u201cA number of US &amp; civilian casualties\u201d were caused by one blast outside the Abbey Gate used by people seeking to flee Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. He called it a \u201ccomplex attack\u201d and it came after US and Nato officials warned their citizens to avoid heading toward the airport. Reports said at least 13 people were killed, citing a Taliban security official, and that Taliban guards were wounded in the blasts. The blast [&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-432359","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\/432359","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=432359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}