{"id":21138,"date":"2026-09-05T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/australian-tourist-dies-heart-attack-wakhan-badakhshan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:30:19","slug":"australian-tourist-dies-heart-attack-wakhan-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/05\/australian-tourist-dies-heart-attack-wakhan-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Tourist Dies of Heart Attack in Badakhshan&#8217;s Wakhan District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the state-owned Afghan-Tour company in Badakhshan province have said that an Australian tourist died of a heart attack in the province&#8217;s Wakhan district.<\/p>\n<p>Zohurullah Fakhri, head of Afghan-Tour in Badakhshan, said the tourist was named Charles and had travelled to Badakhshan to visit the Wakhan and Pamir areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Charles suffered a heart attack in Wakhan two days ago and died.<\/p>\n<p>Wakhan district is located in eastern Badakhshan and is considered one of Afghanistan&#8217;s most remote areas. Because of its mountainous terrain and borders with several countries, the region is one of Badakhshan&#8217;s best-known tourist destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian tourist died of a heart attack in Afghanistan&#8217;s Wakhan district while visiting the Wakhan and Pamir areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21138","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\/21138","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=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}