{"id":79242,"date":"2018-10-13T06:32:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T06:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/deadly-blast-at-an-electoral-rally-in-takhar\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:57:59","slug":"deadly-blast-at-an-electoral-rally-in-takhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/deadly-blast-at-an-electoral-rally-in-takhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly blast at an electoral rally in Takhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"405\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/13\/43754120_1121709587995089_4889405969655660544_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TALUQAN (SW) &ndash; A deadly blast hit an electoral rally in Rustaq district of Takhar province causing casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil Aseer, spokesman for the police in Takhar, has said a motorcycle caused the blast in the afternoon at an electoral rally of a female candidate, Nazeefa Baig, for the forthcoming Wolesi Jirga (lower house) elections.<\/p>\n<p>Eye witnesses said more than 30 people got killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Four days ago, a candidate for the forthcoming elections&nbsp;and eight of his supporters got killed in a suicide attack in southern Helmand province.&nbsp; And, last week, 13 people got killed and more than 20 wounded in a similar attack in Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALUQAN (SW) \u2013 A deadly blast hit an electoral rally in Rustaq district of Takhar province causing casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}