{"id":13186,"date":"2023-01-11T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:18:04","slug":"salang-highway-closed-due-to-heavy-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/01\/salang-highway-closed-due-to-heavy-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Salang Highway closed due to heavy snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Salang Highway connecting north of the country with the capital Kabul has been closed due to heavy snowfall, said officials on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Yaqub, head of Salang highway maintenance department, told Salam Watandar that this highway is closed due to heavy snowfall and storms on both sides of it.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Salang highway maintenance and care department added that this highway has been closed from north to south and from south to north for all traffic.<\/p>\n<p>He did not give details about the exact number of people trapped, but he emphasised that a number of passengers who were stranded during the storm have been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the Afghanistan Meteorological Department had issued a warning yesterday about the possibility of heavy rain and snowfall in 22 provinces of the country.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The Salang Highway connecting north of the country with the capital Kabul has been closed due to heavy snowfall, said officials on Wednesday. Abu Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Yaqub, head of Salang highway maintenance department, told Salam Watandar that this highway is closed due to heavy snowfall and storms on both sides of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,979],"tags":[12,1023,1030],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","tag-afghanistan","tag-snowfall","tag-salang-highway"],"views":118,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13188,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions\/13188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}