{"id":80760,"date":"2015-11-06T16:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-kills-48-anf-personnel-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2015-11-06T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:15:35","slug":"taliban-kills-48-anf-personnel-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-kills-48-anf-personnel-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTaliban kills 48 ANF personnel in Helmand\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH(SW):Security sources in southern Helmand province has said that 48 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel have been killed in Sangin district by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>A high-ranking security official in Helmand, who did not wish to be named, told Salam Watandar that the soldiers got killed when the militants attacked a security checkpoint on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the Taliban have besieged nearly 80 policemen and soldier in Sangin district.<\/p>\n<p>Locals in the district confirmed the news saying that the security personnel were killed in Sari Kurkhi area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the locals, the Taliban have taken with them some vehicles and weapons taken from the check posts.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban took responsibility for the attack in a message and stated that they have killed tens of security forces and have taken a number of them as captives.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials however have not yet publicly confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security sources in southern Helmand province has said that 48 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel have been killed in Sangin district by the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80760","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\/80760","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=80760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}