{"id":4593,"date":"2025-12-31T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/truck-overturns-herat-kandahar-highway-flooding\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:45:20","slug":"truck-overturns-herat-kandahar-highway-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/31\/truck-overturns-herat-kandahar-highway-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Overturns on Herat-Kandahar Highway Due to Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to images circulated on social media yesterday, a truck overturned on the Herat-Kandahar highway, in the Dasht-e Bakwa area, due to flash flooding caused by heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows a large volume of water causing the driver to lose control, with the truck completely submerged in water. So far, there have been no reports of casualties from this incident.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, heavy rainfall and sudden floods have affected various parts of Afghanistan, damaging roads and vehicles. This situation has especially made travel along main highways difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities have warned of flood dangers and urged residents to avoid unnecessary travel on flooded routes and to consider road conditions before traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck overturned on the Herat-Kandahar highway due to flash floods caused by heavy rains, with no casualties reported so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","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\/4593","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=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}