{"id":121035,"date":"2017-12-31T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121035"},"modified":"2017-12-31T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T14:08:11","slug":"15-dead-funeral-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/15-dead-funeral-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"15 dead in funeral blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A suicide attacker blew himself up at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 15 mourners and wounding another 14, officials said, capping a deadly year for civilians.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121036 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/dc-Cover-mipsgu4lfeqmtol94tmvlae1f1-20171231170005.Medi_.jpeg\" alt=\" 15 dead in funeral blast \" width=\"577\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/dc-Cover-mipsgu4lfeqmtol94tmvlae1f1-20171231170005.Medi_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/dc-Cover-mipsgu4lfeqmtol94tmvlae1f1-20171231170005.Medi_-500x280.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/dc-Cover-mipsgu4lfeqmtol94tmvlae1f1-20171231170005.Medi_-768x430.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><br \/>\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility but Taliban and Islamic State militants have stepped up assaults in recent months, with ordinary Afghans bearing the brunt of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll of the attack targeting a funeral ceremony in Behsud district of Nangarhar has increased to 15,&#8221; Nangarhar governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told . Another 14 were wounded. All the casualties were civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide attacker blew himself up at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 15 mourners and wounding another 14, officials said, capping a deadly year for civilians. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Taliban and Islamic State militants have stepped up assaults in recent months, with ordinary Afghans bearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[62044,5675,62046,14103,62045,10080,61765],"class_list":["post-121035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-15-dead-in-funeral-blast","tag-afghanistan","tag-civilians","tag-islamic-state","tag-mourners","tag-sunday","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121035","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=121035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}