{"id":8016,"date":"2022-01-22T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2022-01-22T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T11:38:20","slug":"8016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/01\/8016\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snowfall disrupts key transportation routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW)\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0Heavy snow and storms since last night have closed the Badghis-Herat highway and other transport routes in Ghor, Bamyan and Daikundi provinces, including the main Salangh Pass to the northern provinces<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials in Badghis and a number of drivers on the Qala-e-Nau &#8211; Herat highway said more than 15 passenger cars are trapped in the snow at the Sabzak Dam area in Badghis and are in urgent need of assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials in Ghor, Bamyan and Daikundi provinces also emphasized that most of the districts&#8217; roads to the provincial capitals have been closed to commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the roads have not been reopened and efforts are underway to clear and reopen them.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Hamas, information director of the Ghor Department of Information and Culture, said work was underway on the Ghor route to reopen the roads. &#8220;The Department of Public Works is also emphasizing that we will open the road as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously with the closure of traffic routes in the mentioned provinces, the Salang highway has been closed since last night due to heavy snow and storms.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials in the provinces, whose roads are closed to traffic, have urged travelers not to travel until the situation improves and the roads are cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW)\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0Heavy snow and storms since last night have closed the Badghis-Herat highway and other transport routes in Ghor, Bamyan and Daikundi provinces, including the main Salangh Pass to the northern provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,400,683,744],"class_list":["post-8016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-snow","tag-islamic-emirate","tag-salang-pass"],"views":447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016","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=8016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}