{"id":85724,"date":"2017-09-04T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/traffic-accidents-increase-by-50-per-cent-in-herat\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T09:46:50","slug":"traffic-accidents-increase-by-50-per-cent-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/traffic-accidents-increase-by-50-per-cent-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic accidents increase by 50 per cent in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"449\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/Sep\/4\/\u062d\u0627\u062f\u062b\u0647-\u06cc-\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0641\u06cc\u06a9\u06cc-\u062f\u0631\u0647\u0631\u0627\u062a-\u06f1.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERAT CITY (SW): Authorities at the Herat Public Hospital reported that 315 people were wounded and 4 others killed in traffic accidents and criminal activities during the Eid days.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, the spokesman for the public hospital in Herat, said 237 people sustained wounds and 3 more died in traffic accidents indicating a 50 per cent increase compared to last year&rsquo;s Eid. According to him, 79 persons were injured and 1 killed by criminal acts. &ldquo;Only on the third day of Eid al-Adha, 90 wounded in traffic accidents were brought to the hospital, 10 of whom were in critical condition&rdquo;, added Sherzai.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities in Khost province also said 4 people were killed and 141 injured as a result of traffic accidents in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to comply with traffic laws and regulations, motorcycle speeding in the city are the main reasons for the increase in traffic accidents.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT CITY (SW): Authorities at the Herat Public Hospital reported that 315 people were wounded and 4 other killed in traffic accidents and criminal activities during the Eid days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85724","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\/85724","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=85724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}