{"id":13976,"date":"2014-06-06T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:59:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:59:42","slug":"afghan-presidential-runner-escapes-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/06\/afghan-presidential-runner-escapes-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan presidential runner escapes bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kabul-afghanistan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13179\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kabul-afghanistan-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kabul, Afghanistan. ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kabul-afghanistan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kabul-afghanistan.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabul, Afghanistan. ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KABUL &#8212; Afghan presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah escaped unhurt a twin blast which occurred in western Kabul on Friday noon, Abdullah said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following a political gathering, our vehicle was struck by a mine. None of our team members in the vehicle was hurt in the explosion,&#8221; Abdullah told an election meeting minutes after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The blasts occurred at around 12:10 p.m. (local time) shortly after a political rally ended in Ariana restaurant in western Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by several political leaders and hundreds of their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The exact number of casualties remained unknown.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abdullah, a former foreign minister, said several of his bodyguards were injured in the first blast, adding that none of the injured received life-threading wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place as Afghanistan is preparing for the presidential runoff between Abdullah and his rival Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzi to be held on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as the political campaign was in full swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL &#8212; Afghan presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah escaped unhurt a twin blast which occurred in western Kabul on Friday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1268,479,4770],"class_list":["post-13976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-bombing","tag-kabul","tag-presidential-candidate","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}