{"id":311663,"date":"2026-11-09T14:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=311663"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:44:21","slug":"powerful-explosion-at-turkish-steel-plant-leaves-several-dead-and-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/311663\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful explosion at Turkish steel plant leaves several dead and injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A powerful explosion followed by a major fire has rocked the premises of Haba&#351;, a large steel plant in the Alia&#287;a industrial district of Izmir, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred during working hours and triggered a powerful shockwave felt by residents in nearby areas. A fire broke out at the facility shortly afterwards. Thick plumes of smoke have been reported rising over the city.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services rushed to the scene, including multiple fire crews, ambulances and police units.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident remains unknown. The explosion has reportedly claimed lives and left several people injured, while many others are believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful explosion followed by a major fire has rocked the premises of Haba&#351;, a large steel plant in the Alia&#287;a industrial district of Izmir, Turkey. The explosion occurred during working hours and triggered a powerful shockwave felt by residents in nearby areas. A fire broke out at the facility shortly afterwards. Thick plumes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":311658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-turkey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311664,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311663\/revisions\/311664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}