{"id":2397,"date":"2020-12-20T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2020-12-20T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T10:19:09","slug":"blast-in-kabul-kills-eight-people-15-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2020\/12\/blast-in-kabul-kills-eight-people-15-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in Kabul kills 8 people, 15 wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 At least eight people got killed and 15 others got wounded following a blast in the fifth police district in Kabul, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry said in a statement that the blast was caused by a magnetic bomb aimed at Khan Mohammad Wardak, a member of the Wolesi Jirga (lower house). He is believed to have sustained injuries in this attack.<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Arian, the interior ministry spokesman, said children and women are among those killed and wounded in this attack. He added private property in the vicinity also got damaged.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, five civilians got injured following an identical blast in Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar province. Spokesman for the police headquarters, Shahpur Ahmadzai said the blast took place close to the Ghazni Square are in the city.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people got killed and 15 others got wounded following a blast in the fifth police district in Kabul, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,6,7],"tags":[12,166,240,392],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-report","category-security_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-blast","tag-khan-mohammad-wardak"],"views":572,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}