{"id":29108,"date":"2019-01-14T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29108"},"modified":"2019-01-14T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:23:44","slug":"blast-rocks-afghan-capital-kabul-dozens-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29108","title":{"rendered":"Blast rocks Afghan capital Kabul, dozens wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"80.1873438801\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, causing a number of casualties, the country&#8217;s health ministry has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">More than 40 people were wounded in the explosion on Monday in eastern Kabul, Afghanistan&#8217;s Public Health Ministry spokesperson\u00a0Wahidullah Mayar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WahidullahMayar\/status\/1084831072943259648\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a Tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.10204081633\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More than 40 people are wounded in today&#8217;s explosion in district 9th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kabul?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kabul<\/a>, this evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wahidullah Mayar (@WahidullahMayar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WahidullahMayar\/status\/1084831072943259648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The blast took place outside a high-security compound that is home to several international companies and charities, security officials told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A blast was heard in Kabul, we are still investigating further,&#8221; police spokesperson\u00a0Basir Mujahid Kabul told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Local\u00a0Afghan news website\u00a0Tolo News reported that a spokesperson for the\u00a0Interior Ministry, Najib Danish, had confirmed the explosion was caused by a truck bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Tolo also posted footage on Twitter which appeared to show ambulances returning from the scene of the blast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.69430051813\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Footage shows ambulances returning from a blast scene in Kabul&#8217;s PD9 &#8212; near Green Village compound on Kabul-Jalalabad road. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e4KZx3jH3Z\">pic.twitter.com\/e4KZx3jH3Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOLOnews\/status\/1084828351297146880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, causing a number of casualties, the country&#8217;s health ministry has said. More than 40 people were wounded in the explosion on Monday in eastern Kabul, Afghanistan&#8217;s Public Health Ministry spokesperson\u00a0Wahidullah Mayar said in a Tweet. More than 40 people are wounded in today&#8217;s explosion in district 9th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29108","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\/29108","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=29108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}