{"id":9821,"date":"2022-04-29T13:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2022-04-29T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:04:13","slug":"daesh-claims-credit-for-mazar-e-sharif-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/04\/daesh-claims-credit-for-mazar-e-sharif-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Daesh claims credit for Mazar-e-Sharif bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The so-called Islamic State (Daesh) has claimed responsibility for the deadly string of blasts in Balkh province a day earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blasts, which have been widely condemned, killed at least nine civilians and injured dozens of more.<\/p>\n<p>Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the previous government&#8217;s peace council, have also strongly condemned the blasts.<\/p>\n<p>Karzai called the bombings a &#8220;crime against humanity&#8221; and said these attacks violated the peace and tranquility of Afghans and all human and tarnished Islamic values \u200b\u200band principles.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The so-called Islamic State (Daesh) has claimed responsibility for the deadly string of blasts in Balkh province a day earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":330,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821","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=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}