{"id":2898,"date":"2024-06-01T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2024-06-01T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:40:45","slug":"20-drown-in-boat-accident-in-eastern-afghanistan-provincial-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/20-drown-in-boat-accident-in-eastern-afghanistan-provincial-official\/","title":{"rendered":"20 drown in boat accident in eastern Afghanistan: provincial official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Twenty people, including children, drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, a provincial official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A boat with women and children on board sank on Saturday morning at 7 am (0230 GMT) in the river in the Basawul area of Momand Dara district&#8221; of eastern Nangarhar, said Quraishi Badloon, the head of the province&#8217;s information department, in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>He said five people survived the accident, the cause of which was being investigated. The Nangarhar Information and Culture Department said the authorities had sent a medical team and ambulances to the area, in a message shared with media.<\/p>\n<p>At least five bodies had been recovered and efforts were underway to find the others, provincial government officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the area regularly cross the river using boats often in poor condition, as there is no nearby bridge, local media reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty people, including children, drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, a provincial official said. &#8220;A boat with women and children on board sank on Saturday morning at 7 am (0230 GMT) in the river in the Basawul area of Momand Dara district&#8221; of eastern Nangarhar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}