{"id":23864,"date":"2026-10-13T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/floods-lightning-nangarhar-kunar-five-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:45:15","slug":"floods-lightning-nangarhar-kunar-five-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/floods-lightning-nangarhar-kunar-five-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods and lightning injure five in Nangarhar and Kunar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rainfall, floods and lightning in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces have damaged homes, farmland, roads and a number of public facilities and property belonging to residents.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say homes and agricultural land have been damaged in several districts of Nangarhar. In Behsud district, six rooms of a house collapsed, and in Pachiragam district, two people were lightly injured after being struck by lightning.<\/p>\n<p>In Kunar\u2019s Chapa Dara district, flooding damaged nine vehicles, seven motorcycles, 17 shops, a mosque, two head of livestock, a power generator and a flour mill. The destruction of part of a road in the Digal area has also closed the route to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say assessments are still under way to determine the exact scale of the damage and the number of affected families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain, floods and lightning in Afghanistan&#8217;s Nangarhar and Kunar provinces have damaged homes, roads and property, injuring five people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864","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=23864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}