{"id":15547,"date":"2018-07-20T11:57:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15547"},"modified":"2018-07-20T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:57:28","slug":"official-taliban-attacks-kill-8-police-in-east-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15547","title":{"rendered":"Official: Taliban attacks kill 8 police in east Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kabul, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> A district governor in Afghanistan says Taliban fighters launched a wave of attacks in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least eight police and wounding seven others.<\/p>\n<p>Saeeb Khan Elham said today that insurgents launched a wave of attacks on compounds and police security posts in the Qarabagh district late the night before.<\/p>\n<p>He said government forces meant to reinforce the district were attacked in a Taliban ambush that included roadside mines and were unable to help.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone interview with AP. He says 16 police were killed and a government compound in the district damaged.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS) A district governor in Afghanistan says Taliban fighters launched a wave of attacks in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least eight police and wounding seven others. Saeeb Khan Elham said today that insurgents launched a wave of attacks on compounds and police security posts in the Qarabagh district late the night before. He said government forces meant to reinforce the district were attacked in a Taliban ambush that included roadside mines and were unable to help. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15549,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions\/15549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}