{"id":94559,"date":"2020-05-08T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/landmine-blast-kills-khost-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T02:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T02:14:05","slug":"landmine-blast-kills-khost-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/landmine-blast-kills-khost-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine blast kills Khost police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/8\/Khost%20b.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KHOST CITY (SW) &#8211; A roadside landmine blast has killed police chief of Khost province along with his three guards, an official confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry said in a statement that Syed Ahmad Babazay was martyred in a roadside landmine blast along with three guards as they were on their way to an anti-terrorism operation in the Nadur Shah Kot district.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the Taliban insurgents have been active in Nader Shah district for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry on Saturday claimed over 1000 civilians got killed and wounded in attacks by Taliban in a little over two months.<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Aryan, the interior ministry spokesman, told a press conference here that in past 70 days the Taliban killed 387 civilians while wounding 590 and abducting 200 others. &quot;In response to these attacks, the Afghan forces while maintaining the posture of defensive offence killed around 1400 Taliban&quot;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200508_114546_136.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHOST CITY (SW) &#8211; A roadside landmine blast has killed police chief of Khost province along with his three guards, an official confirmed on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94559","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=94559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}