{"id":82540,"date":"2016-07-23T08:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T08:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/suicide-attacks-kill-61-protestors-in-kabul\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T08:40:32","slug":"suicide-attacks-kill-61-protestors-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/suicide-attacks-kill-61-protestors-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attacks kill 61 protestors in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"466\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/23 Jul\/IMG_5377.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): At least two blasts ripped through the crowd of protesters in the capital Kabul&rsquo;s Deh-e-Mazang area on Saturday leaving at least 61 dead and over 200 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The protest rally was part of the &lsquo;Junbish-e-Roshnayee&rsquo; movement that has been demanding change in the rout of a power transmission line. Eye witnesses told Salam Watandar that gunfire was also heard following the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>A number of wounded people have been transported to the public hospitals. Nearby buildings have also been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces warned the protestors against such terrorist activities a day before the rally. No group or individual has taken responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/23 Jul\/dddd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khadim Hussain Karimi, one of the protestors, told Salam Watandar that the blasts have left heavy casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Ministry of Public Health have confirmed at least 61 dead.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the protestors told Salam Watandar that they would not leave the Deh Mazang Square unless the government meets their demands.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two blasts ripped through the crowd of protesters in the capital Kabul\u2019s Deh-e-Mazang area on Saturday leaving at least 61 dead and over 200 wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82540","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\/82540","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=82540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}