{"id":36183,"date":"2021-08-30T01:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/29\/smoke-visible-across-kabul-after-blast-near-airport-kills-child-video"},"modified":"2021-08-30T01:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:49:49","slug":"smoke-visible-across-kabul-after-blast-near-airport-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36183","title":{"rendered":"Smoke visible across Kabul after blast near airport \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US forces have launched a &#8216;defensive&#8217; military strike in Kabul against a vehicle carrying &#8216;multiple suicide bombers&#8217; from the Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>&nbsp;who were aiming to attack the airport, American officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate word on casualties and few other details have so far emerged about the incident, which may have triggered a second blast in a nearby house.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported an explosion near Kabul airport and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>&nbsp;officials confirmed the US account. According to some reports, a child died in the second blast<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/afghanistan-fresh-blast-near-kabul-airport-kills-child\">Afghanistan: fresh blast near Kabul airport kills child<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/29\/smoke-visible-across-kabul-after-blast-near-airport-kills-child-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US forces have launched a &#8216;defensive&#8217; military strike in Kabul against a vehicle carrying &#8216;multiple suicide bombers&#8217; from the Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate in&nbsp;Afghanistan&nbsp;who were aiming to attack the airport, American officials have said.T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36184,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36183\/revisions\/36184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}