{"id":12692,"date":"2026-05-10T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/lightning-storm-nangarhar-kills-two-injures-three\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:34:57","slug":"lightning-storm-nangarhar-kills-two-injures-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/lightning-storm-nangarhar-kills-two-injures-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning and Storm in Nangarhar Kill Two, Injure Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials in Nangarhar province report that a severe lightning strike and storm have resulted in the deaths of two people, including a child, and injured three others. Heavy rains in some areas have also caused damage to agricultural lands.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiqullah Qureshi, head of the Information Department of Nangarhar&#8217;s Culture and Information Directorate, stated that after noon yesterday in the Pas-deh area of the Mohmand Dara district, lightning struck a residential home, killing a child and injuring a woman along with two other children.<\/p>\n<p>He added that simultaneously, in the Farm-e-Som area of Batikot district, a severe storm caused a tree to fall on a woman, resulting in her death.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also noted that heavy rains in the Kot district caused damage to farmlands. So far, no further details on the exact extent of these damages have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning and a storm in Nangarhar province kill two people, including a child, injure three others, and cause agricultural damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}