{"id":98333,"date":"2017-04-15T03:28:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98333"},"modified":"2017-04-15T03:28:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:28:56","slug":"afghan-official-massive-us-bomb-dead-toll-rise-to-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/15\/afghan-official-massive-us-bomb-dead-toll-rise-to-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan official: massive US bomb dead toll rise to 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98334\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Non-nuclear-weapon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98334\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Non-nuclear-weapon.png\" alt=\"An Afghan official says the number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94. (Photo: Kenny Holston\/Facebook)\" width=\"502\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Non-nuclear-weapon.png 502w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Non-nuclear-weapon-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Afghan official says the number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kennyholston\/4627111409\/\">Kenny Holston\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KABUL \u2014 An Afghan official says the number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94.<\/p>\n<p>Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said Saturday the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Defence official had said Friday that the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. attack on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed at least four IS group leaders, Khogyani said. He said a clearance operation was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>There had been heavy fighting in the area in recent weeks between Afghan forces and IS militants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL \u2014 An Afghan official says the number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17917,17918],"class_list":["post-98333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-non-nuclear-weapon","tag-us-bomb","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98333","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}