{"id":85077,"date":"2017-06-22T04:19:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/suicide-attack-claims-25-lives-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T04:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:19:59","slug":"suicide-attack-claims-25-lives-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/suicide-attack-claims-25-lives-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack claims 25 lives in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"387\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/june\/22\/helmand.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least 25 people are confirmed dead and over 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing outside a bank in Lashkargah, Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>Umar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, has said a number of wounded are in critical state. The attacker rammed his car loaded with explosives into a crowd of civilians and security personnel queuing-up to collect their salaries from the Lashkargah city branch of the New Kabul Bank (NKB).<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. The same NKB branch in Lashkargah witnessed a suicide attack in February this year which claimed seven lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least 25 people are confirmed dead and over 50 wounded in a suicide car bombing outside a bank in Lashkargah, Helmand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85077","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\/85077","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=85077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}