{"id":241547,"date":"2026-05-23T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:30:08","slug":"1-killed-36-injured-in-new-yorks-staten-island-explosion-pajhwok-afghan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241547\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed, 36 injured in New York\u2019s Staten Island explosion \u2013 Pajhwok Afghan News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KABUL (Pajhwok): One person has been killed and 36 others injured in an explosion at a dry dock repair facility in New York City, United States, a media report said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast occurred on Friday on Staten Island while firefighters were responding to a fire and attempting to rescue two people trapped inside the facility, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the fire initially broke out in the basement of the facility, where two workers were trapped. Firefighters were conducting rescue and firefighting operations when the explosion suddenly occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One person was killed and 36 others injured in the incident, the report added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis was a complex, fast-developing emergency situation,\u201d New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cFirst responders did what they always do: they ran towards danger so others could escape to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">City officials said an investigation into the cause of the fire and explosion will begin once the blaze is fully extinguished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">kk\/sa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KABUL (Pajhwok): One person has been killed and 36 others injured in an explosion at a dry dock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,94544,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-241547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-yorks-staten-island-explosion","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}