{"id":94748,"date":"2020-06-29T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/23-civilians-killed-15-wounded-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2020-06-29T07:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:52:52","slug":"23-civilians-killed-15-wounded-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/23-civilians-killed-15-wounded-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"23 civilians killed, 15 wounded in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/June\/29\/Helmand%202.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) &ndash; At least 23 civilians were killed and 15 others were injured following a string of blasts in Helmand&rsquo;s Sangin district on Monday<span dir=\"RTL\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rockets were fired by Taliban insurgents at a traditional fair in the Old Bazaar area of \u200b\u200bSangin district at around 9am, the governor&#39;s office said in a statement. According to local sources, two Taliban insurgents were killed, four civilians were martyred and four others were injured in the blast<span dir=\"RTL\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement said that the Taliban are running a propaganda in the media by claiming that the Afghan security and defense forces had carried out artillery attacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Afghan security and defense forces have not carried out any artillery or other major attacks in Sangin since this morning<span dir=\"RTL\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Helmand Governor Lt. Gen. Mohammad Yasin has ordered security and intelligence agencies to investigate the incident<span dir=\"RTL\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, said in a statement to the media that the deaths were caused by a mortar shell fired by the 2nd Brigade of the 215th Maiwand Corps.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) \u2013 At least 23 civilians were killed and 15 others were injured following a string of blasts in Helmand\u2019s Sangin district on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94748","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\/94748","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=94748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}