{"id":400269,"date":"2020-08-23T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400269"},"modified":"2020-08-23T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T14:23:06","slug":"landmine-blast-kills-7-civilians-in-central-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/landmine-blast-kills-7-civilians-in-central-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmine blast kills 7 civilians in central Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:landmine blast in central Afghanistan killed at least seven civilians on Sunday, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by local authorities in the restive Ghazni province, the incident took place at around 11.00 a.m. (0630GMT) in the Jaghato district where a civilian vehicle struck the explosive, killing all seven passengers, including three women and two children,<\/p>\n<p>The statement alleged that the bomb had been planted by the Taliban, though there has yet been no claim of responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a landmine in the neighboring Kandahar province killed at least five civilians and injured six others.<\/p>\n<p>Condemning the attack, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani urged the Taliban to respond positively to the calls for peace and stop planting roadside explosives.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid a deadly escalation in the fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan security forces on the heels of a stalled peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements over the exchange of prisoners between the Afghan government and the Taliban have delayed peace negotiations envisaged under a US-Taliban deal signed in February to end the 19-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Figures by Afghanistan&#8217;s Independent Human Rights Commission suggest that in the first six months of 2020, a total of 1,213 civilians were killed and 1,744 injured in 880 different security incidents, including landmine blasts, aerial raids and ground offensives between the sides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SONNA):landmine blast in central Afghanistan killed at least seven civilians on Sunday, an official said. According to a statement by local authorities in the restive Ghazni province, the incident took place at around 11.00 a.m. (0630GMT) in the Jaghato district where a civilian vehicle struck the explosive, killing all seven passengers, including three women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400271,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400269\/revisions\/400271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}