{"id":26891,"date":"2025-01-29T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26891"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:21:51","slug":"two-suspects-arrested-over-deaths-of-10-family-members-in-khost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/two-suspects-arrested-over-deaths-of-10-family-members-in-khost\/","title":{"rendered":"Two suspects arrested over deaths of 10 family members in Khost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Security officials in Khost have confirmed the arrest of two suspects linked to the killing of 10 family members in the Alisher district of the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mustaghfar Gurbaaz, spokesperson for the Khost governor, told Salam Watandar that the two individuals were considered &#8220;highly suspicious&#8221; and were apprehended on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gurbaaz added that investigations into the suspects are ongoing, and the case will be handed over to the judicial authorities once the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information, according to Gurbaaz, suggests that the attack was the result of a personal dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Khost provincial government issued a statement to the media, reporting that unknown gunmen opened fire on the family around 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 28, in the Abu Khana area of Alisher district, killing 10 family members.<\/p>\n<p>Among the victims were women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials confirmed that security forces have launched an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security officials in Khost have confirmed the arrest of two suspects linked to the killing of 10 family members in the Alisher district of the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":81,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26895,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26891\/revisions\/26895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}