{"id":9415,"date":"2021-01-17T12:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=151080"},"modified":"2021-01-17T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T12:43:26","slug":"three-turkmen-border-guards-killed-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/three-turkmen-border-guards-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Turkmen Border Guards Killed In Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2CEBFBB8-86FE-4C83-AEDF-BF62E33ED76C_w1200_r1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Three Turkmen border guards were killed when their military helicopter crashed into a high-voltage power transmission tower near the border with Iran, eyewitnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place late January 14 near the village of Yashlyk, located some 60 kilometers from the capital, Ashgabat.<\/p>\n<p>A border guard officer, who spoke to RFE\/RL on condition of anonymity, said all three on board the helicopter were killed, including a captain.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses told RFE\/RL that they believed that the military helicopter crashed due to dense fog and poor visibility.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmen authorities have not commented on the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the tightly controlled Central Asian nation rarely announce the deaths of military personnel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/17\/three-turkmen-border-guards-killed-in-helicopter-crash\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Turkmen border guards were killed when their military helicopter crashed into a high-voltage power transmission tower near the border with Iran, eyewitnesses said. The crash took place\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,467],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}