{"id":84348,"date":"2017-03-21T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/16-security-officials-reported-dead-on-kandahar-helmand-highway\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T03:36:11","slug":"16-security-officials-reported-dead-on-kandahar-helmand-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/16-security-officials-reported-dead-on-kandahar-helmand-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"16 security officials reported dead on Kandahar-Helmand highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/23\/Helmand.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least 14 members of the security forces have reportedly died in a suicide attack on the Helmand-Kandahar highway, a security source said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A security officials who was not authorized to speak to the media, informed Salam Watandar that a suicide car bomber targeted an outpost of the security forces. According to the source, 14 employees of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) died in this attack, and 6 more got wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, has acknowledged the attack. He, however, rejected the death toll. Zwak said the government is assessing the situation.<\/p>\n<p>No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least 14 members of the security forces have reportedly died in a suicide attack on the Helmand-Kandahar highway, a security source said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84348","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\/84348","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=84348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}