{"id":304904,"date":"2018-10-31T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304904"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:16:06","slug":"25-killed-in-afghan-army-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/25-killed-in-afghan-army-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"25 killed in Afghan Army helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304905\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304905\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chopper-jpg.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a catastrophic incident, all 25 people on board were killed after an Afghan army helicopter crashed in the western Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The head of the Farah provincial council and the deputy army cops commander of the Afghan Army were said to be among the officials on board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Farah provincial governor spokesman Nasir Mehri, the aircraft crashed due to &#8220;bad weather&#8221; in Anar Dara district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the Taliban claimed that the militants shot it down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both pilots and 23 passengers were killed in the crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources said, the helicopter hit a mountain peak in poor weather en route to neighbouring Herat province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, senior officials frequently travel by helicopter in regions where the Taliban has a large presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a catastrophic incident, all 25 people on board were killed after an Afghan army helicopter crashed in the western Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. The head of the Farah provincial council and the deputy army cops commander of the Afghan Army were said to be among the officials on board. According to Farah provincial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9123,428,9124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304904"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304909,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304904\/revisions\/304909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}