{"id":11671,"date":"2019-09-19T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2019-09-19T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T08:02:52","slug":"20-killed-in-bomb-attack-near-intelligence-building-in-southern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/09\/19\/20-killed-in-bomb-attack-near-intelligence-building-in-southern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"20 killed in bomb attack near intelligence building in southern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Reuters has quoted a provincial official as saying, with casualties expected to rise as rescuers sift the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The target was a nearby building of the government&#8217;s intelligence department in Qalat, the capital of Zabul province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty bodies and 95 wounded people had been evacuated from the blast site, said Haji Atta Jan Haqbayan, a member of the provincial council in Qalat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The number of casualties may rise as rescue teams and people are still searching for bodies under the rubble,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several women, children, health workers and patients in the hospital were critically injured in the blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Reuters has quoted a provincial official as saying, with casualties expected to rise as rescuers sift the rubble. The target was a nearby building of the government&#8217;s intelligence department in Qalat, the capital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11673,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions\/11673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}