{"id":93608,"date":"2019-11-14T06:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/road-accident-in-iran-kills-28-afghans\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T06:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:58:32","slug":"road-accident-in-iran-kills-28-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/road-accident-in-iran-kills-28-afghans\/","title":{"rendered":"Road accident in Iran kills 28 Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/November\/14\/Accedent.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A road accident in Iran&rsquo;s southeast has killed 28 Afghan nationals, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The report said 21 people were also injured when two vans collided near the town of Khash in Sistan and Baluchistan province early on Thursday. That&rsquo;s about 1,500 kilometers southeast of the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The area is a frequent route used by traffickers to smuggle illegal Afghan migrants, usually in crammed vehicles in desperate conditions, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has one of the world&rsquo;s worst traffic safety records, which are blamed on disregard of traffic laws, unsafe vehicles and inadequate emergency services, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Every year some 17,000 people die in accidents in Iran. In July, 18 people were killed and 14 injured in two separate road accidents in central Iran, AP added.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A road accident in Iran\u2019s southeast has killed 28 Afghan nationals, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93608","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=93608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}