{"id":19322,"date":"2026-08-09T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/mine-explosion-nuristan-one-dead-one-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:31:14","slug":"mine-explosion-nuristan-one-dead-one-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/mine-explosion-nuristan-one-dead-one-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Mine Explosion in Nuristan Leaves One Dead and One Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mine explosion occurred on Saturday, August 8, in the Pachigram area of the Barg-e-Matal district in Nuristan province, resulting in one death and one injury.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the deceased was identified as Ghulam Mohammad, a resident of Nari district in Kunar province. Another individual was also injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes after a previous fatal accident in Nusay district of Badakhshan province, where a miner lost his life due to a mine collapse and being trapped under debris.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, numerous casualties and injuries among miners have been reported across various provinces of the country. These incidents are largely attributed to unregulated mining practices and lack of adequate safety equipment and precautions in the mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mine explosion in Nuristan killed one miner and injured another, highlighting ongoing safety issues in Afghanistan&#8217;s mining sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19322","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\/19322","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=19322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}