{"id":3722,"date":"2025-12-20T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/herat-torghundi-road-closed-snowstorm-heavy-trucks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:15:55","slug":"herat-torghundi-road-closed-snowstorm-heavy-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/herat-torghundi-road-closed-snowstorm-heavy-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowstorm Forces Temporary Closure of Herat\u2013Torghundi Road to Heavy Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Herat\u2013Torghundi highway has been temporarily closed to large and heavy freight trucks due to heavy snowfall and intensified storms in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>The media office of the Taliban governor in Herat announced that snowfall and strong winds are particularly severe in the Band-e-Baghcher area, making conditions unsuitable for the passage of heavy vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the office, citizens were urged to avoid unnecessary travel along the route until further notice to prevent potential accidents.<\/p>\n<p>According to local officials, currently only small vehicles equipped with tire chains are permitted to travel on the road, and the condition of the highway is being continuously monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Herat\u2013Torghundi road in Afghanistan has been closed to heavy trucks due to heavy snow and storms, with only chained small vehicles allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","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\/3722","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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}