{"id":81740,"date":"2016-04-11T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/traffic-accidents-leave-11-dead-and-49-more-injured-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T08:11:25","slug":"traffic-accidents-leave-11-dead-and-49-more-injured-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/traffic-accidents-leave-11-dead-and-49-more-injured-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic accidents leave 11 dead and 49 more injured in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/11  Apr\/traffic.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Two separate traffic accidents in southern province Helmand have left 11 dead and nearly 49 more injured.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Ahmad Khan, Head of Traffic Department in Helmand, said that the first accident happened in Shorab area at Nimroz-Kabul Highway when a bus overturned and 7 passengers were killed and 43 more were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the second accident occurred at Helmand-Kandahar Highway as a result which 4 persons were killed and 6 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the accident happened when a personal car collided with a military vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/11  Apr\/trafic (2).jpg\" width=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He blamed careless driving for most of the accidents which take place in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Road accidents continue to take lives and inflict casualties on the citizens who also lose lives due to the fighting in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Many traffic accidents in the country are due to substandard roads and lack of attention to the traffic rules.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate traffic accidents in southern province Helmand have left 11 dead and nearly 49 more injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}