{"id":4775,"date":"2017-01-10T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2017-01-10T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:38:20","slug":"twin-bombings-in-afghanistan-kills-more-than-30-wound-dozens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/twin-bombings-in-afghanistan-kills-more-than-30-wound-dozens\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin bombings in Afghanistan kills more than 30, wound dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Two explosions go off near Afghanistan&#8217;s parliament in Kabul, killing at least 30 in an attack claimed by the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two suicide bombings in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul on Tuesday\u00a0has killed at least 31 people and injuring others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bombings came just hours after a Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the volatile southern province of Helmand, as the militants ramp up attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blasts, that targeted a van carrying administrative staffers of the Afghan parliament in the capital of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blasts left 30 people dead and 80 wounded, some of them in serious condition, health ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh told AFP, warning that the toll was expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the injured were the governor, Humayoon Azizi, and an envoy from the United Arab Emirates, the doctor said. The UAE envoy was reportedly in town for a ceremony to kick off construction of a new school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The violence began when a suicide attacker on foot detonated a bomb near the van, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said. The second blast came from a vehicle that exploded when police arrived to help victims, said Ahmad Wali, a Kabul district police chief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the Taliban were targeting members of the Afghanistan&#8217;s intelligence agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two explosions go off near Afghanistan&#8217;s parliament in Kabul, killing at least 30 in an attack claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,137,113,11],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-asia","tag-security","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/afghanistan-blast.jpg?fit=680%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1f1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}