{"id":17226,"date":"2018-09-12T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/afghanistan-attack-nangarhar-suicide-blast-toll-soars\/48"},"modified":"2018-09-12T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:21:48","slug":"afghanistan-attack-nangarhar-suicide-blast-toll-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17226","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan attack: Nangarhar suicide blast toll soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man who was injured in a twin suicide bomb blasts, that targeted girl's schools, receive medical attention at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 11 September 2018.\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afghanistan-attack-nangarhar-suicide-blast-toll-soars-5b98daac4a1cb.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright EPA Image caption The death toll from Tuesday&#8217;s suicide bombing soared overnight <\/p>\n<p>A suicide bombing in east Afghanistan has killed at least 68 people, officials say, in one of the deadliest insurgent attacks in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The bomber struck in a crowd of people protesting against a local police chief in Nangarhar province near Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from Tuesday&#8217;s blast soared overnight. Another 165 people were injured &#8211; local hospitals struggled to cope with the casualties. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds have died in a wave of recent attacks. Elections are due in October.<\/p>\n<p>No group has said it carried out the suicide bombing in the crowd of protesters in Nangarhar&#8217;s Momand Dara district, but Islamic State militants are active in the province.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\n<p>Earlier, five people were injured in two bomb attacks near a school in the same province. <\/p>\n<p>The violence follows recent diplomatic efforts to end the lengthy war between the Afghan government and the Taliban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPA Image caption The death toll from Tuesday&#8217;s suicide bombing soared overnight A suicide bombing in east Afghanistan has killed at least 68 people, officials say, in one of the deadliest insurgent attacks in recent months. The bomber struck in a crowd of people protesting against a local police chief in Nangarhar province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7912],"class_list":["post-17226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-afghanistan-attack-nangarhar-suicide-blast-toll-soars-bbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}