{"id":93830,"date":"2019-12-16T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/surge-in-terrorist-attacks-causes-concerns-in-herat\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:30:23","slug":"surge-in-terrorist-attacks-causes-concerns-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/surge-in-terrorist-attacks-causes-concerns-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in terrorist attacks causes concerns in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"666\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/December\/16\/herat city.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERAT CITY (SW) &ndash; A sudden surge in terrorist attacks and killing spree have&nbsp;caused concerns among Herat residents.<\/p>\n<p>In the past four days, the province saw as many deadly incidents claiming the lives of at least six policemen and a high-ranking election commission official besides injuring ten more people.<\/p>\n<p>In a latest incident of the sort, armed assailants attacked a police station in the Injeel district on Sunday evening leaving three policemen and two attackers killed. This was followed by a bomb blast in the seventh district of Herat city at a coffee shop killing four people.<\/p>\n<p>The locals demand the security officials to take serious note of the situation, and put in place measures to ensure peace.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this, Abdul Raheem Salehi, member of the provincial council, said due to the alleged negligence of the security officials, at least 20 security forces have lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, deputy governor, Dawood Hashemi, said the insurgents are unable to face the security forces face-to-face that is why they have intensified attacks inside the city.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the police headquarters, Abdul Ahad, said soon the intelligence and defense forces would capture the perpetrators behind the latest surge in terrorist attacks here.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT CITY (SW) \u2013 A sudden surge in terrorist attacks and killing spree have caused concerns among Herat residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93830","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\/93830","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=93830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}