{"id":191773,"date":"2019-07-19T07:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191773"},"modified":"2019-07-21T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:49:07","slug":"12-killed-scores-wounded-in-afghanistan-taliban-car-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191773","title":{"rendered":"12 killed, scores wounded in Afghanistan Taliban car bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters \u2013 July 18, 2019<\/h1>\n
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An Afghan police officer keeps watch near the site of a suicide car bomb blast in Kandahar, Afghanistan July 18, 2019. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Twelve people were killed and more than 80 wounded when Taliban fighters detonated two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Thursday, police and medical officials and the Taliban said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the blasts, militant gunman opened fire from nearby positions and members of the security forces were battling them, said Tadeen Khan, the southern city\u2019s chief of police.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attackers targeted the police force\u2019s counter-narcotics wing, Khan said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses said that following the first explosion, three back-to-back explosions were heard and the gunfight was still going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police cordoned off the area as passers-by fled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those killed were both policemen and civilians, said Bahir Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, giving the death toll.<\/span><\/p>\n

A doctor on duty in Kandahar provincial hospital said 83 wounded people had been taken to the hospital, most of them civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Taliban said in a statement their fighters had detonated car bombs and clashes were continuing as some fighters had entered the police offices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kandahar was the former seat of the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until they were ousted by a U.S.-led coalition in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

The militants have fought on and while U.S. officials and Taliban militants have been discussing a peace deal since late last year to end the war, the violence has not abated.<\/span><\/p>\n

At least 20 Afghan forces members were killed in a Taliban ambush in Abkamari district in western Badghis province on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Taliban also killed an Afghan commander on Wednesday in central Afghanistan. Mateen Mujtaba, who headed an army division in Ghazni province, was conducting a security check in Qarabagh district when an Afghan soldier started shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials said the soldier was an infiltrator of the hardline Islamist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The day before at least 20 Afghan forces members were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Badghis province. How long before America calls it a day Afghanistan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191777,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191773\/revisions\/191777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}