{"id":300330,"date":"2018-07-13T05:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300330"},"modified":"2018-07-13T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T05:59:21","slug":"egypt-twelve-people-hurt-in-explosion-near-cairo-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/egypt-twelve-people-hurt-in-explosion-near-cairo-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Twelve people hurt in explosion near Cairo International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300331\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300331\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/egypt-blast-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/egypt-blast-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/egypt-blast-477x420.jpg 477w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/egypt-blast.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Social Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Twelve people were injured in a massive explosion at a chemical factory near Egypt\u2019s Cairo&#8217;s airport on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Injured people were taken to the hospital, but the severity of their injuries is not yet known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe blast was caused by &#8220;high temperatures&#8221; at a fuel storage facility\u201d, an army spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Egypt&#8217;s aviation minister Younis al-Masri, the air traffic at the airport has not been affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The blast could be heard across large parts of the city,,\u00a0\u00a0According to eyewitnesses, the sound of the explosion was deafening and flames could be seen from a distance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve people were injured in a massive explosion at a chemical factory near Egypt\u2019s Cairo&#8217;s airport on Thursday evening. Injured people were taken to the hospital, but the severity of their injuries is not yet known. \u201cThe blast was caused by &#8220;high temperatures&#8221; at a fuel storage facility\u201d, an army spokesperson said. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3604,3603,3602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300333,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300330\/revisions\/300333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}