{"id":90715,"date":"2019-05-18T04:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T04:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/blast-in-herat-kills-five-people\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:09:46","slug":"blast-in-herat-kills-five-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/blast-in-herat-kills-five-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in Herat kills five people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/May\/18\/Herat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERAT (SW) &ndash; At least five people got killed and 20 others got injured following an explosion in Herat&rsquo;s Ooba district, officials confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Hakeem Tamana, director public health, told Salam Watandar the incident took place in the district market where a motorcycle packed with explosives exploded. He feared the death toll might rise.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place close to the district public hospital, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the provincial governor, Jailani Farhad, said a child and an elderly man are among those wounded in this blast.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest the district governor was the target of this attack.<\/p>\n<p>The remote Ooba district is among the restive parts of Herat province.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT (SW) \u2013 At least five people got killed and 20 others got injured following an explosion in Herat\u2019s Ooba district, officials confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90715","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\/90715","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=90715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}