{"id":96695,"date":"2020-10-14T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96695"},"modified":"2020-10-14T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:26:25","slug":"nine-killed-after-two-army-helicopters-collide-in-afghanistan-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96695","title":{"rendered":"Nine killed after two army helicopters collide in Afghanistan &#8211; Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>KABUL, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; Nine people were killed after two Afghan army helicopters collided in midair in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern Helmand province Tuesday night, reported Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the country&#8217;s Defence Ministry,&nbsp; in a statement on Wednesday, the accident occurred in Nawa-i-Barakzayi district when two Afghan National Army military Mi-17 helicopters crashed due to technical issues while they were taking off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, nine individuals aboard were martyred in the crash. Ministry of Defence is investigating the incident,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, local media reported that 15 people were killed in the accident in the region, 555 km south of Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The province has been the scene of heavy clashes in recent days after hundreds of Taliban militants from two neighboring provinces joined local militants and tried to capture Lashkar Gah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept. 24, an Afghan Air Force attack helicopter crashed due to technical failure in northern Baghlan province, killing two pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; Nine people were killed after two Afghan army helicopters collided in midair in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern Helmand province Tuesday night, reported Xinhua news agency. According to the country&#8217;s Defence Ministry,&nbsp; in a statement on Wednesday, the accident occurred in Nawa-i-Barakzayi district when two Afghan National Army military Mi-17 helicopters crashed due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":84917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}