{"id":2169,"date":"2020-12-05T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:16:53","slug":"5-security-forces-killed-in-armed-assaults-in-kandahar-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/12\/5-security-forces-killed-in-armed-assaults-in-kandahar-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"5 security forces killed in armed assaults in Kandahar, Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 At least 3 policemen got killed and 5 others got wounded following a car bomb blast in Kandahar, officials confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kandahar police spokesman Jamal Nasser Barakzai said the incident took place this morning in the village of Sufianzo in the Arghistan district when Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden car at a police checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, 3 policemen were killed and 5 others were injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada has said two security forces and a civilian had been killed in an armed attack in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place around 10 am on Saturday when a group of gunmen sitting in a car opened fire on the security forces, he said, adding the assailants fled the scene, but police are trying to identify and arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>No individual or group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 3 policemen got killed and 5 others got wounded following a car bomb blast in Kandahar, officials confirmed on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6],"tags":[12,13,180,273],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-herat","tag-kandahar"],"views":737,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}