{"id":94323,"date":"2020-03-06T04:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/27-person-killed-55-injured-in-attack-on-death-anniversary-of-mazari\/"},"modified":"2020-03-06T04:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:41:22","slug":"27-person-killed-55-injured-in-attack-on-death-anniversary-of-mazari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/27-person-killed-55-injured-in-attack-on-death-anniversary-of-mazari\/","title":{"rendered":"27 person killed, 55 injured in attack on death anniversary of Mazari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/March\/06\/attack ok.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The health ministry on Friday confirmed at least 27 person got killed and 55 others got wounded in armed assault on a ceremony marking death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat Rahimi, interior ministry spokesman, said all high-ranking officials and figures were safely evacuated from site of the attack. He said in a statement that the armed attackers used an under-construction facility to launch this attack.<\/p>\n<p>Waheedullah Mayar, health ministry spokesman, confirmed later that 27 people got killed and 55 others got injured.<\/p>\n<p>Among those wounded include Masooma Muradi, former governor of Daikundi province, eye-witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Key figures including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman High Peace Council, Mohammad Karim Khalili, former foreign minister Salahuddini Rabbani and others were present at the venue when gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Condemning the attack, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani dubbed it as &lsquo;inhuman attack on national unity&rsquo;. He telephoned Abdullah and Khalili and inquired about their well-being.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban rejected any involvement.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The health ministry on Friday confirmed at least 27 person got killed and 55 others got wounded in armed assault on a ceremony marking death anniversary of Abdul Ali Mazari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94323","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\/94323","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=94323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}