{"id":432717,"date":"2021-08-28T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432717"},"modified":"2021-08-28T10:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:11:16","slug":"latest-from-kabul-airport-death-toll-from-attack-rises-evacuations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/latest-from-kabul-airport-death-toll-from-attack-rises-evacuations-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest from Kabul airport: Death toll from attack rises, evacuations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the Kabul airport attack blamed on Islamic State Khorasan Province rose on Friday as evacuation efforts, led by the United States, continued to get citizens and officials out of war-torn Afghanistan. Although the exact death toll is unclear given the extent of the suicide bombing attack, the AFP news agency quoted former health officials and reported that the toll had risen to 72. Meanwhile, a Taliban official said on the condition of anonymity that as many as 75 Afghans were killed in the incident, while 150 others were left wounded following the series of lethal attacks at the airport. The Associated Press, quoting an official, reported that the bodies of &#8220;at least 95 Afghans&#8221; were taken from the scene of the airport suicide attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the Kabul airport attack blamed on Islamic State Khorasan Province rose on Friday as evacuation efforts, led by the United States, continued to get citizens and officials out of war-torn Afghanistan. Although the exact death toll is unclear given the extent of the suicide bombing attack, the AFP news agency quoted former health officials and reported that the toll had risen to 72. Meanwhile, a Taliban official said on the condition of anonymity that as many as 75 Afghans were killed in the incident, while 150 others were left wounded following the series of lethal attacks [&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-432717","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\/432717","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=432717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}