{"id":35726,"date":"2021-08-23T02:51:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghan-refugee-gives-birth-on-us-evacuation-plane"},"modified":"2021-08-23T02:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:51:30","slug":"afghan-refugee-gives-birth-on-us-evacuation-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35726","title":{"rendered":"Afghan refugee gives birth on US evacuation plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medics helped deliver a baby girl in cargo bay after the aircraft landed at Ramstein airbase in Germany<\/p>\n<p>An Afghan woman gave birth on board a US evacuation plane on Saturday, moments after landing at Ramstein airbase in Germany, the US air force said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman gave birth to a baby girl in the cargo bay of a C-17 aircraft after going into labour and experiencing complications during the flight, US Air Mobility Command said on Twitter. \u201cThe aircraft commander decided to descend in altitude to increase air pressure in the aircraft, which helped stabilise and save the mother\u2019s life,\u201d the tweet said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghan-refugee-gives-birth-on-us-evacuation-plane\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medics helped deliver a baby girl in cargo bay after the aircraft landed at Ramstein airbase in GermanyAn Afghan woman gave birth on board a US evacuation plane on Saturday, moments after landing at Ramstein airbase in Germany, the US air force said.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,533,494,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-germany","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35727,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35726\/revisions\/35727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}