{"id":14517,"date":"2018-09-10T04:28:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T04:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2018-09-10T04:28:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T04:28:25","slug":"afghanistan-bomb-attack-hits-ahmed-shah-massoud-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14517","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Bomb attack hits Ahmed Shah Massoud supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives close to a procession commemorating the death of a former anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander, wounding at least two people, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The attacker targeted a convoy marking the 17th anniversary of Ahmed Shah Massoud’s death in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, according to police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He told AFP news agency there were no reports of fatalities other than the death of the perpetrator.<\/p>\n

The blast on Sunday came hours after another suspected suicide bomber was shot by police in Kabul before he could detonate his device.<\/p>\n

He was shot dead near supporters of Massoud, dubbed the Lion of Panjshir, a Tajik fighter who led resistance to the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and to the 1996-2001 Taliban government.<\/p>\n

Massoud was killed two days before the 9\/11 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, that precipitated the US-led invasion of Afghanistan<\/a> in 2001.<\/p>\n

The attacks on Sunday follow a spate of deadly attacks in the city, including a double bombing at a wrestling club<\/a> on Wednesday that killed at least 26 people, including two journalists, and wounded 91 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives close to a procession commemorating the death of a former anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander, wounding at least two people, a police spokesperson said. The attacker targeted a convoy marking the 17th anniversary of Ahmed Shah Massoud’s death in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, according…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}