{"id":90975,"date":"2019-06-26T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-kill-11-policemen-in-herat\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:12:43","slug":"taliban-kill-11-policemen-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-kill-11-policemen-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill 11 policemen in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/26\/Afghan_police.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HERAT CITY (SW) &ndash; A well-placed security source in Herat told Salam Watandar at least eight policemen got killed and some 16 others got wounded in the Taliban&rsquo;s attacks in the Gulraan district.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Mohammad Arif, a former member of the provincial council, said a number of civilians also sustained losses in this attack.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial governor, Abdul Qayum Rahimi, has confirmed the clashes, but declined to share more details about the casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming responsibility for the attack, the Taliban said in a statement that they have overrun the Gulraan district after killing 12 policemen and injuring eight more.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the provincial police headquarters, has asserted that ten Taliban insurgents have been killed in these clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, three policemen have been killed in the Taliban&rsquo;s assault on security check posts around the provincial capital, Farah City, Shah Mehmood Naimi, deputy chairman for the provincial council, confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT CITY (SW) \u2013 A well-placed security source in Herat told Salam Watandar at least eight policemen got killed and some 16 others got wounded in the Taliban\u2019s attacks in the Gulraan district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90975","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\/90975","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=90975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}