{"id":63920,"date":"2018-05-06T16:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63920"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:48:24","slug":"10-killed-in-afghanistan-mosque-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63920","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in Afghanistan mosque blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kabul, May 6 (TNS): An explosion at a mosque in the eastern Afghan province of Khost has killed at least 10 people and the number may rise, a police official says.<\/p>\n<p>Basir Bina, spokesman for the provincial police, said people were gathered after afternoon prayers in the mosque, which was also being used as a voter registration centre for parliamentary elections due in October.<\/p>\n<p>No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday&#8217;s attack, but both the Taliban and a local Islamic State affiliate reject democratic elections and have targeted them in the past.<\/p>\n<p>IS is not known to have a presence in Khost, but has expanded its footprint into other areas in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an Islamic State suicide bomber attacked a voter registration centre in Kabul, killing 60 people and wounding at least 130 others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy: SBS News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kabul, May 6 (TNS): An explosion at a mosque in the eastern Afghan province of Khost has killed at least 10 people and the number may rise, a police official says. Basir Bina, spokesman for the provincial police, said people were gathered after afternoon prayers in the mosque, which was also being used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63921,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63920\/revisions\/63921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}