{"id":85229,"date":"2017-07-20T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/8-security-personnel-reported-dead-in-taliban-attacks-in-grishk\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T04:05:13","slug":"8-security-personnel-reported-dead-in-taliban-attacks-in-grishk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/8-security-personnel-reported-dead-in-taliban-attacks-in-grishk\/","title":{"rendered":"8 security personnel reported dead in Taliban attacks in Grishk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/July\/20\/helmand.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least eight security personnel are reportedly killed in the Taliban&rsquo;s early morning attacks on security ring and surrounding check posts in Helmand province.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban militants attacked security check posts in Grishk district&rsquo;s Awpashak and Deh Adam Khan areas early on Thursday. A well-placed security source who wished not to be named told Salam Watandar up to 6 policemen and 2 soldiers died in this attack, and three security check posts have been overrun by the Taliban. The clashes are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Salam, spokesman for the provincial police headquarters, said two soldiers and three policemen got injured in this attack. He said a third vehicle bombing was prevented by the security forces, fresh ground and air forces have been dispatched to the area to quell the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, however, have made claims about killing up to 30 policemen, and overrunning a military base and many check posts.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): At least eight security personnel are reportedly killed in the Taliban\u2019s early morning attacks on security ring and surrounding check posts in Helmand province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85229","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\/85229","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=85229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}