{"id":46201,"date":"2015-04-02T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46201"},"modified":"2015-04-02T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:40:49","slug":"afghan-official-suicide-bombing-in-east-kills-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/02\/afghan-official-suicide-bombing-in-east-kills-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan official: Suicide bombing in east kills 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/khost-afghanistan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46249\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/khost-afghanistan.png\" alt=\"khost afghanistan\" width=\"584\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/khost-afghanistan.png 584w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/khost-afghanistan-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KABUL, Afghanistan\u2014 A suicide bomber attacked an anti-corruption demonstration in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 16 people and wounding 40, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion in the eastern city of Khost wounded a local member of parliament, Hamayun Hamayoon, according to Mubarez Mohammed Zadran, the governor&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Khost is a volatile province along the border with Pakistan where the Taliban have an entrenched, long-term presence. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in the province fleeing a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban positions across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, the police chief of a restive district in the country&#8217;s south was killed by a roadside bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Hikmatullah Akmal was heading toward a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Gereshk district when the bomb planted by insurgents struck his vehicle, according to Helmand provincial police chief Nabi Jan Malakhail.<\/p>\n<p>A major military operation is underway to drive Taliban insurgents from the poppy-rich valley of the Helmand River.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgents, fighting to protect supply routes and a major source of funding from the opium produced in the province, have stepped up attacks on police checkpoints and other government targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Afghanistan\u2014 A suicide bomber attacked an anti-corruption demonstration in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 16 people and wounding 40, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":46249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201","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=46201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}