{"id":9673,"date":"2022-04-21T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2022-04-21T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T14:00:19","slug":"mazar-e-sharif-blast-in-a-mosque-claims-multiple-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/04\/mazar-e-sharif-blast-in-a-mosque-claims-multiple-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazar-e-Sharif: Blast in a mosque claims multiple lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Sources in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, have confirmed that at least 30 people were killed and more than 80 were injured following an explosion inside a mosque.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bomber struck shortly after 12:40 p.m. It is said that this mosque belonged to the Shiite community.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 injured people have been transferred to Mazar-e-Sharif district hospital as a result of this explosion. Sources also say that the death toll is more than 30 people.\u00a0According to the sources, the number of dead and wounded is increasing and this is a preliminary figure.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggest that the so-called Islamic State (Daesh) has taken responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Sources in Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, have confirmed that at least 30 people were killed and more than 80 were injured following an explosion inside a mosque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,235,240,344,683],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-daesh","tag-blast","tag-mazar-e-sharif","tag-islamic-emirate"],"views":364,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","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=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}