{"id":51236,"date":"2022-12-18T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/dec\/18\/thick-smoke-at-scene-of-deadly-fuel-tanker-explosion-in-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2022-12-18T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:19:14","slug":"thick-smoke-at-scene-of-deadly-fuel-tanker-explosion-in-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51236","title":{"rendered":"Thick smoke at scene of deadly fuel tanker explosion in Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 said. The Salang tunnel, about 80 miles north of Kabul, was built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It is a key route linking the country\u2019s north and south. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/afghanistan-fuel-tanker-explodes-tunnel-deaths\">&nbsp;Many killed after fuel tanker explodes in tunnel in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/dec\/18\/thick-smoke-at-scene-of-deadly-fuel-tanker-explosion-in-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 said. The Salang tunnel, about 80 miles north of Kabul, was built in the 1960s to assist the Soviet invasion. It &#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":[46,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51236","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\/51236","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=51236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236\/revisions\/51245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}