{"id":20223,"date":"2018-10-29T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T09:22:42","slug":"suicide-attack-targets-afghanistan-election-workers-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20223","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack targets Afghanistan election workers in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.9197207679\">\n<p>A suicide bomber detonated explosives near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/afghanistan.html\">Afghanistan<\/a>&#8216;s Independent Election Commission (IEC) headquarters in Kabul on Monday, injuring at least six people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The IEC spokesman says a staff vehicle was targeted and left at least four election officials and two policemen wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, there was a string of similar attacks during the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/poll-close-afghanistan-long-delayed-parliamentary-elections-181021121134312.html\">parliamentary elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Voting was suspended by a week in Kandahar province after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/taliban.html\">Taliban<\/a> killed a prominent police chief.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jennifer Glasse joins us now from Kabul with the latest updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber detonated explosives near Afghanistan&#8217;s Independent Election Commission (IEC) headquarters in Kabul on Monday, injuring at least six people, officials said. The IEC spokesman says a staff vehicle was targeted and left at least four election officials and two policemen wounded. Last weekend, there was a string of similar attacks during the country&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20223","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\/20223","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=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}