{"id":83746,"date":"2017-01-10T07:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T07:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/twin-suicide-attack-rocks-kabul\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T07:47:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T07:47:48","slug":"twin-suicide-attack-rocks-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/twin-suicide-attack-rocks-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin-suicide attack rocks Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/jan\/10\/483542060.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Multiple casualties are feared as twin-suicide attacks rocked Kabul on Tuesday.&nbsp;The attack took place in the southern part of the city near the historic Darul Aman palace.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Interior, 25 people have lost their lives in this attack. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.&nbsp;The country&rsquo;s top spy agency National Directorate of Security (NDS) was the target of this attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the eye witnesses, at first a lone suicide attacker on foot detonated his explosives, and minutes later a car laden with explosives exploded, which caused most damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Claiming responsibility for the attack, the Taliban have asserted that up to 70 security officials have been killed. Zabehullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban said in a message that 30 members of the NDS died in the first attack while 40 men of the police died in the second one.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan government and international community have condemned the attack. In a statement,&nbsp;UNAMA&nbsp;condemned&nbsp;yesterday&rsquo;s Kabul and Kandahar attacks that claimed the lives of more than 40 people, mainly civilians and including representatives of the diplomatic community.&nbsp;Such unprincipled, unlawful and deplorable attacks cause immense human suffering and make the peace that Afghans need and deserve even more difficult to achieve,&rdquo; said Pernille Kardel, the Secretary-General&rsquo;s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Multiple casualties are feared as twin-suicide attacks rocked Kabul on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83746","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\/83746","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=83746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}