{"id":120481,"date":"2017-12-28T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=120481"},"modified":"2017-12-28T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T11:40:01","slug":"40-killed-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/40-killed-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"40 killed in blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite cultural centre in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul that killed about 40 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The extremist group said it targeted the centre with three bombs followed by a suicide bombing, in a statement on its propaganda outlet Amaq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120482 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/resized_250499-ap17359196440162_41-24066_t598.jpg\" alt=\"40 killed in blasts\" width=\"598\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban was quick to deny involvement in the assault near the Afghan Voice Agency, a media outlet which earlier reports had suggested could have been the target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi told the blasts were in fact aimed at the Shiite Tabayan cultural centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have 40 killed, 30 wounded, but this is not the final toll. It might go up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite cultural centre in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul that killed about 40 people. The extremist group said it targeted the centre with three bombs followed by a suicide bombing, in a statement on its propaganda outlet Amaq. Taliban was quick to deny involvement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[61762,61766,5675,41985,61764,61763,61765],"class_list":["post-120481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-40-killed-in-blasts","tag-afghan-voice-agency","tag-afghanistan","tag-islamic-state-group","tag-kabul","tag-shiite-cultural-centre","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/136121185_14892455064571n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}