{"id":432397,"date":"2021-08-27T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432397"},"modified":"2021-08-27T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:06:14","slug":"pentagon-says-there-were-two-explosions-near-kabul-airport-with-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pentagon-says-there-were-two-explosions-near-kabul-airport-with-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon says there were two explosions near Kabul airport, with casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were at least two explosions near Kabul&#8217;s airport amid a huge evacuation effort from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday, with civilians and US service members among the casualties. <\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said one blast occurred near the airport&#8217;s Abbey Gate and the other close to the nearby Baron Hotel. Two US officials said at least one of the explosions appeared to be from a suicide bombing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US &amp; civilian casualties,&#8221; Kirby said on twitter. &#8220;We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were at least two explosions near Kabul&#8217;s airport amid a huge evacuation effort from Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Thursday, with civilians and US service members among the casualties. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said one blast occurred near the airport&#8217;s Abbey Gate and the other close to the nearby Baron Hotel. Two US officials said at least one of the explosions appeared to be from a suicide bombing. &#8220;We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US &amp; civilian casualties,&#8221; Kirby said on twitter. [&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-432397","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\/432397","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=432397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}