{"id":1096,"date":"2021-05-23T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:18:26","slug":"several-afghan-worshippers-killed-in-blast-at-mosque-near-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2021\/05\/23\/several-afghan-worshippers-killed-in-blast-at-mosque-near-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Afghan worshippers killed in blast at mosque near Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed and more wounded in an explosion at a mosque on the outskirts of Afghanistan\u2019s capital, Kabul, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The blast during Friday prayers in Shakar Dara district came on the second day of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/13\/temporary-afghan-ceasefire-to-begin-amid-rising-violence\">three-day ceasefire<\/a>\u00a0agreed between the Afghan government and the Taliban on the occasion of the Eid al-Fitr religious holiday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said explosives had been placed inside the mosque beforehand, adding that authorities had opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death toll has jumped to 12 killed including the imam of the mosque and 15 others are wounded,\u201d said Ferdaws Framurz, a spokesman for\u00a0Kabul\u00a0police, updating an earlier toll.<\/p>\n<p>An image circulating on social media showed three bodies lying on the floor of the mosque, where there seemed to be minor damage.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion happened a day after at least 11 people were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/5\/13\/separate-blasts-kill-11-afghan-civilians-on-first-day-of\">killed<\/a>\u00a0in four separate incidents across Afghanistan that shattered the relative calm of the ceasefire agreed between the government and the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people have been killed and more wounded in an explosion at a mosque on the outskirts of Afghanistan\u2019s capital, Kabul, according to police. The blast during Friday prayers in Shakar Dara district came on the second day of a\u00a0three-day ceasefire\u00a0agreed between the Afghan government and the Taliban on the occasion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}