{"id":85881,"date":"2020-08-03T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85881"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:38:28","slug":"two-civilians-killed-24-wounded-in-attack-during-eid-ceasefire-in-e-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85881","title":{"rendered":"Two Civilians Killed, 24 Wounded In Attack During Eid Ceasefire In E. Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JALALABAD, Aug 3 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Two civilians were killed and 24 others wounded, in a car bomb blast and ensuing gunfire, outside a prison, in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern Nangarhar province, yesterday, a local official said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack took place during a three-day Eid al-Adha ceasefire, between the Afghan government and the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Terrorists detonated a car bomb at the front gate of Nangarhar prison, roughly at 6:30 p.m. (local time), destroying the front wall of the building,&#8221; provincial government spokesman, Attahullah Khogiani, told Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesman added that a group of assailants engaged with the prison guards and tried to enter into the prison, after the blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The security forces are responding to the attack and they are trying to foil the terrorist vicious plan to infiltrate into the prison building,&#8221; he said. The exchange of fire continued as of 8:30 p.m. local time, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blast sent a column of thick smoke into the sky and triggered panic, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. The Daesh group also has presence in the region, 120 km east of Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blast came as the Afghan security forces and Taliban militants were observing the Eid festival truce, which ended late last night.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JALALABAD, Aug 3 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Two civilians were killed and 24 others wounded, in a car bomb blast and ensuing gunfire, outside a prison, in Afghanistan&#8217;s eastern Nangarhar province, yesterday, a local official said. The attack took place during a three-day Eid al-Adha ceasefire, between the Afghan government and the Taliban. &#8220;Terrorists detonated a car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":85883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}