{"id":3583,"date":"2021-03-12T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:16:24","slug":"targeted-killing-claims-the-lives-of-a-prosecutor-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/03\/targeted-killing-claims-the-lives-of-a-prosecutor-a-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Targeted killing claims the lives of a prosecutor, a cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KAPISA\/ GARDEZ (SW) \u2013 A prosecutor has been gunned down in Paktia province in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paktia governor Mohammad Haleem Fidaey, the incident took place late on Thursday night in the provincial capital Gardez. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, according to local officials in Kapisa, a detective from the Criminal Investigation Department of the provincial police headquarters has been assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>Shaikh Shorash, a spokesman for the Kapisa police chief, told Salam Watandar that the officer was killed by Taliban militants riding a motorcycle near his home this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the incident took place in Sayed Khan Qala area of \u200b\u200bthe first security district of Mahmood Raqi city.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a number of security sources told Salam Watandar that the attackers were Taliban members who were later killed by locals after the incident and their bodies were hanged from a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prosecutor has been gunned down in Paktia province in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6],"tags":[12,287,404],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-paktia","tag-kapisa"],"views":520,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}