{"id":51227,"date":"2022-12-18T20:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/afghanistan-fuel-tanker-explodes-tunnel-deaths"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:49:27","slug":"many-killed-after-fuel-tanker-explodes-in-tunnel-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51227","title":{"rendered":"Many killed after fuel tanker explodes in tunnel in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blast in Salang Tunnel, a key route linking north and south of country, killed at least 19 people, says official<\/p>\n<p>At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, a local official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Salang Tunnel, about 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It is a key route linking the country\u2019s north and south.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/afghanistan-fuel-tanker-explodes-tunnel-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast in Salang Tunnel, a key route linking north and south of country, killed at least 19 people, says officialAt least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, a local official h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/51227","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51227\/revisions\/51246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}