{"id":81628,"date":"2016-03-24T03:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/number-of-rebels-fall-victim-to-a-blast-in-marja\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T03:08:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:08:25","slug":"number-of-rebels-fall-victim-to-a-blast-in-marja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/number-of-rebels-fall-victim-to-a-blast-in-marja\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of rebels fall victim to a blast in Marja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/26  Mar\/24  Mar\/marcha  (2).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least 20 Taliban rebels have died in southern Helmand province as they were placing explosives in a car that detonated, an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has reportedly taken place in the restive Marja district&rsquo;s 5<sup>th<\/sup> block. Abdullah Khan, Marja Security Chief has said that 20 rebels have died and 15 more are wounded. He told Salam Watandar that the Taliban were preparing the explosives-ridden car to be sent to the frontline against the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).<\/p>\n<p>The incident has occurred late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A well placed security source in the area added in this regard that a drone has also struck here last evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;As per the source, the unmanned predator targeted a house that was used by the Taliban to store arms and ammunitions.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban have so far said nothing about this incident.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 Taliban rebels have died in southern Helmand province as they were placing explosives in a car that detonated, an official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81628","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\/81628","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=81628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}