{"id":17476,"date":"2025-12-28T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:03:15","slug":"construction-work-on-a-large-bridge-over-helmand-river-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/12\/28\/construction-work-on-a-large-bridge-over-helmand-river-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction work on a large bridge over Helmand River begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LASHKARGAH: The construction work on a major bridge over the Helmand River in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, has begun, at a cost of $3.2 million, the governor&#8217;s press office said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a ceremony, held on this occasion was attended by the governor of Helmand, deputy ministers of the Interior and Information and Culture, as well as a number of local officials, said the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the bridge will be 340 meters long and 9 meters wide, and will connect Lashkargah to the Kandahar-Herat highway via the Babaji district of Helmand province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The construction is expected to be completed within the next eighteen months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Helmand provincial officials stated that this bridge will facilitate transportation and the livelihoods of residents in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helmand is a vast province in the south of the country, through which a raging river flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH: The construction work on a major bridge over the Helmand River in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, has begun, at a cost of $3.2 million, the governor&#8217;s press office said in a statement today. In a ceremony, held on this occasion was attended by the governor of Helmand, deputy ministers of the Interior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17479,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions\/17479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}