{"id":3875,"date":"2021-04-02T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:39:14","slug":"5-civilians-killed-in-landmine-blast-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/04\/5-civilians-killed-in-landmine-blast-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"5 civilians killed in landmine blast in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) \u2013 A landmine blast in Helmand province claimed the lives of at least five civilians, said officials on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the Helmand governor, Umer Zwak said a passenger car hit a roadside landmine on the main Kandahar \u2013 Helmand highway before noon that resulted in killing of five people onboard.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, seven women got hurt when an identical incident when a passenger bus hit landmine in the Kashk-e-Kohna district of western Herat province. According to the provincial administration, three among the injured were in critical state. Herat officials also blamed the Taliban for mining the roads.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) \u2013 A landmine blast in Helmand province claimed the lives of at least five civilians, said officials on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6,7],"tags":[12,51,180],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-helmand","tag-herat"],"views":556,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","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=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}