{"id":9808,"date":"2022-04-28T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:35:17","slug":"blasts-in-mazar-e-sharif-claim-nine-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/04\/blasts-in-mazar-e-sharif-claim-nine-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasts in Mazar-e-Sharif claim nine lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) &#8211; Multiple blasts ripped through civilians in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh province claiming at least nine lives on Thursday, confirmed officials<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Balkh security officials reported that 9 people were killed and 13 others were injured as a result of two explosions in the third and tenth security districts of Mazar-e-Sharif. The blasts took place around 7 pm today in the Shiite neighborhood of downtown Mazar-e-Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Asif Vaziri, spokesman for the Balkh Police Command, told Salam Watandar that the first blast in the Karte Ariana area struck in the 10th security district of Mazar-e-Sharif and the second in the area next to the Sultan Ghiasuddin school in the 3rd security district in the city. As a result, 9 people were killed and 13 others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the death toll from the blasts was higher than the reported figures. The wounded and killed are all civilians.<\/p>\n<p>No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the blasts. Earlier, the Islamic State group (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the bombings in religious places and Shiite neighborhoods in Mazar-e-Sharif and a number of other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, however, most Shiite-affiliated areas in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif have been attacked, causing concern among many Balkh residents.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) &#8211; Multiple blasts ripped through civilians in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh province claiming at least nine lives on Thursday, confirmed officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,344],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-mazar-e-sharif"],"views":310,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","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=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}