{"id":213319,"date":"2020-09-10T07:28:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T07:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213319"},"modified":"2020-09-12T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T05:52:49","slug":"afghan-assassination-bid-vice-president-survives-attack-which-kills-wounds-2-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213319","title":{"rendered":"Afghan vice president survives attack which kills, wounds 2 dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Sept 9, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10-killed-after-bomb-attack-hits-Afghan-vice-presidents-convoy-in-Kabul-768x430-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-213320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10-killed-after-bomb-attack-hits-Afghan-vice-presidents-convoy-in-Kabul-768x430-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10-killed-after-bomb-attack-hits-Afghan-vice-presidents-convoy-in-Kabul-768x430-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10-killed-after-bomb-attack-hits-Afghan-vice-presidents-convoy-in-Kabul-768x430-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Afghanistan\u2019s First Vice-President Amrullah Saleh has been lightly injured in a bomb attack targeting his convoy in the capital, Kabul, but two dozen other\u00a0people have been killed and wounded.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The bomb attack targeted Saleh\u2019s convoy as he left his home and was heading to work in Kabul on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A video was released on Facebook soon after the attack, showing Saleh, with bandages on his left hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI am fine but some of my guards have been wounded. My son, who was in the car with me, and I are both fine,\u201d Saleh said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI have some burns on my face and hand. The blast was strong,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Initial reports had said that Saleh had escaped the attack unharmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Afghan Interior Ministry put the number of casualties at 10 fatalities and over a dozen injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Saleh, a former intelligence chief and President Ashraf Ghani\u2019s first deputy, has so far survived several assassination attempts, including one on his office last year that killed 20 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Taliban say\u00a0not behind attack<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said the group \u201chas nothing to do\u201d with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The blast came as\u00a0the Afghan government is expected to begin peace talks with the Taliban militant group in the Qatari capital of Doha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Officials warned that rising violence was endangering the negotiations, which are aimed at ending nearly two decades of war in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/09\/09\/633670\/Afghanistan-vice-president-assassination-Amrullah-Saleh-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh survives attack on convoy, which leaves ten dead and dozens wounded. Crucially however, the Taliban deny responsibility <\/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":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213319","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=213319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213360,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213319\/revisions\/213360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}