{"id":73546,"date":"2025-08-20T23:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/people-killed-as-bus-collides-with-fuel-truck-herat-western-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-08-20T23:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:15:44","slug":"at-least-78-people-killed-as-bus-collides-with-fuel-truck-in-western-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73546","title":{"rendered":"At least 78 people killed as bus collides with fuel truck in western Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children among dead after bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed and caught fire in Herat province <\/p>\n<p>Seventy-eight people have died in western Afghanistan in a collision between a bus carrying Afghans who had recently been deported from Iran and two other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The bus hit a motorcycle and a truck transporting fuel on Tuesday night, causing an explosive fire in Guzara district, Herat province. Two of the three survivors later died of their injuries, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/20\/people-killed-as-bus-collides-with-fuel-truck-herat-western-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children among dead after bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed and caught fire in Herat province Seventy-eight people have died in western Afghanistan in a collision between a bus carrying Afghans who had recently been deported from Iran and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4900,"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":[46,59,807,334,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-road-safety","category-road-transport","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\/73546","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\/4900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73546\/revisions\/73547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}