{"id":13084,"date":"2025-08-24T06:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:53:20","slug":"explosion-of-a-mortar-shell-left-over-from-the-war-kills-a-child-in-maidan-wardak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/explosion-of-a-mortar-shell-left-over-from-the-war-kills-a-child-in-maidan-wardak\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion of a mortar shell left over from the war kills a child in Maidan Wardak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13081\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hawan-maidan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Explosion of a mortar shell left over from the war kills a child in Maidan Wardak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>An unexploded mortar shell from the war in Chak district of Maidan Wardak province on Saturday, August 23, killed a child and injured four others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The incident occurred when a number of students were on their way home after school. Local officials say that the condition of some of the injured is critical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Afghanistan is among the countries that suffers the most victims from mines and munitions left over from the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Red Cross report shows that in 2024 alone, at least 564 people in the country died from such explosions, nearly 80 percent of whom were children.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosion of a mortar shell left over from the war kills a child in Maidan Wardak. An unexploded mortar shell from the war in Chak district of Maidan Wardak province on Saturday, August 23, killed a child and injured four others. The incident occurred when a number of students were on their way home after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}