{"id":10075,"date":"2022-05-15T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10075"},"modified":"2022-05-15T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T07:16:45","slug":"gunmen-kill-school-administrator-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/05\/gunmen-kill-school-administrator-in-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill school administrator in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KANDAHAR CITY (SW) &#8211; Unknown gunmen have shot dead a local private school administrator in Kandahar province, confirmed officials.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local officials in Kandahar say that late yesterday (Saturday, May 14), the deputy director of the Afghan-Turkish private high school in the town of Ainu Maina, in the 11th district of Kandahar, was killed by unknown gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, Mahmoud Azm, spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, told Salam Wtandar that the body of the killed person had been found inside a car after about two hours in an area where there was little traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, local sources in Kandahar also told Salam Watandar that the deputy director of the Afghan-Turkish private high school, named Ershad Ahmad Afzali, had been killed yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, unidentified gunmen also took his mobile phone with them. Sources add that the body of the killed person was transferred to Kandahar District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Asif Hakimi, spokesman for the Kandahar Police Command, also confirmed the incident, added that investigations were under way to arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place after sources informed Salam Watandar that the teaching process in a number of schools of the Afghan &#8211; Turk foundation in Kabul had been suspended due to security threats.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Mohit Azizi, head of the Afghan &#8211; Turk education foundation&#8217;s girls&#8217; school in Kabul, confirmed that the schools had been temporarily closed. He told Salam Watandar that the decision had been made after consulting with the Islamic Emirate&#8217;s intelligence directorate.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW) &#8211; Unknown gunmen have shot dead a local private school administrator in Kandahar province, confirmed officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,273,841],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-kandahar","tag-isalmic-emirate"],"views":342,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}