{"id":628,"date":"2015-01-13T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:01:55","slug":"afghan-police-officer-kills-commander-and-district-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/afghan-police-officer-kills-commander-and-district-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan police officer kills commander and district governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Afghan police officer has shot and killed his commander and district governor in southern Afghanistan, officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson, Farid Ahmad Obaid, said on Tuesday that this recent \u201cinsider attack\u201d took place in Nawzad, a northern district of Helmand province, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker killed commander Shamsullah, and Sayed Murad Sadat, chief of Helmand&#8217;s Nawzad district, while they were in a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker \u201cwas wounded in an exchange of fire with the guards and later died in the hospital,&#8221; said Obaid, adding, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know the motive behind this attack yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An investigation has already started to find out the reason for the shooting,&#8221; said deputy provincial police chief, Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban militants later claimed the attack.\u00a0 A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, posted on his official Twitter account that the policeman had defected to the militants\u2019 movement.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban\u2019s attacks have been rising recently since the end of NATO&#8217;s combat mission after 13 years at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Press TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan police officer has shot and killed his commander and district governor in southern Afghanistan, officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,6,15,10],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-defense","tag-militants","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Afghan-Police.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}