{"id":1571,"date":"2020-10-27T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:10:42","slug":"suicide-car-bombing-targets-special-forces-unit-in-khost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/10\/suicide-car-bombing-targets-special-forces-unit-in-khost\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide car bombing targets Special Forces\u2019 unit in Khost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KHOST CITY (SW) \u2013 A complex suicide car bombing and armed assault on the unit of special police force in Khost has left at least 2 people killed and 23 other wounded, the interior ministry confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Arian, spokesman for the interior ministry, said the incident took place early at around 05:50 am when two vehicles loaded with explosives rocked the provincial capital and a third one targeted by the security forces before it could reach its target. He confirmed at least 2 people got killed and 23 others, including 9 civilians got wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He added four attackers who wished to enter the compound of special forces were killed in shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Talib Mangal, spokesman for the provincial governor, has confirmed that unit of the special forces was the target of this complex assault.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talib Mangal, spokesman for the provincial governor, has confirmed that unit of the special forces was the target of this complex assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6],"tags":[12,13,14,268],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-peace","tag-khost"],"views":602,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}