{"id":4832,"date":"2021-06-10T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:06:41","slug":"car-bombing-in-bgahlan-kills-six-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/car-bombing-in-bgahlan-kills-six-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bombing in Bgahlan kills six soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PUL-E-KHUMRI (SW) \u2013 At least six soldiers got killed and ten more got wounded following a car bombing in Baghlan province, said officials on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Security sources in Baghlan told Salam Watandar that at around 2:00 am, an army base in the Bagh area north of Pul-e-Khumri was targeted by a car bomb. According to sources, at least 6 soldiers have been killed and more than 10 others have been injured as a result of this incident.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/01\/car-bombing-in-baghlan-kills-four-security-forces\/\">Car bombing in Baghlan kills four security forces <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/05\/06\/100-security-forces-surrender-to-taliban-in-baghlan\/\">100 security forces \u2018surrender\u2019 to Taliban in Baghlan\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>According to these sources, this base was also the headquarters of the security forces and many parts of it have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>A number of wounded soldiers said the security forces have suffered heavy casualties and many are trapped under rubble. According to the military, the base is located a few kilometers from the Baghlan police headquarters, but no reinforcements arrived to rescue the wounded and victims.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Tavakoli, commander of the 217<sup>th<\/sup> Pamir Corps in the northeast, confirmed the blast, but said the car bomb had been identified and fired upon by army forces before reaching its target.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWN_English\">Follow Us on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swn.english\">Follow Us on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>According to him, the Taliban attacked the base and surrounding checkpoints after the incident and clashed with security forces, which was repulsed.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, claiming that a large number of government forces had been killed and dozens of their vehicles destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-E-KHUMRI (SW) \u2013 At least six soldiers got killed and ten more got wounded following a car bombing in Baghlan province, said officials on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,4,6,7],"tags":[13,40,598],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-taliban","tag-baghlan","tag-afghansitan"],"views":579,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}