{"id":37701,"date":"2021-10-06T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/former-british-embassy-driver-badly-beaten-in-kabul"},"modified":"2021-10-06T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:05:54","slug":"former-british-embassy-driver-badly-beaten-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37701","title":{"rendered":"Former British embassy driver badly beaten in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, one of 150 staff who applied to be evacuated to UK, suffers fractured skull and hand in attack<\/p>\n<p>A former employee of the British embassy in Kabul has been badly beaten at his home by five armed men, in an attack linked to his 11 years working with UK diplomats in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The British embassy driver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/afghans-guarded-british-embassy-g4s-gardaworld-fear-being-killed-by-taliban\">one of about 150 employees who applied to be evacuated<\/a> in May, was at home with his family in a village on the outskirts of Kabul last Thursday when five masked men came to his house and attacked him, hitting him with their Kalashnikovs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/former-british-embassy-driver-badly-beaten-in-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, one of 150 staff who applied to be evacuated to UK, suffers fractured skull and hand in attackA former employee of the British embassy in Kabul has been badly beaten at his home by five armed men, in an attack linked to his 11 years working with U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":861,"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-37701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/37701","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\/861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37701\/revisions\/37702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}