{"id":10003,"date":"2019-09-28T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T07:42:38","slug":"afghan-presidential-election-blasts-at-polling-station-leaves-multiple-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10003","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Presidential Election: Blasts at Polling Stations Leaves Multiple Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two blasts and a rocket attack have marred the opening of Afghanistan&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Explosions and a rocket attack left two people dead and several others wounded in\u00a0 Afghanistan on Saturday, hours after voting began to elect a new president.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital official in the southern city of Kandahar said 15 people were injured in the first blast inside a mosque that was being used as a polling station.<\/p>\n<p>A second explosion at a polling station in the Sorkh Rod district in eastern Nangarhar\u00a0 left one person dead and three others wounded<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a\u00a0rocket attack in Kunduz province killed an election observer, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s polls opened amid tight security due to threats from an insurgent Taliban.\u00a0 But urnout is expected to be low after the Taliban ordered\u00a0their fighters to disrupt the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The war-torn country&#8217;s Ministry of Interior Affairs said 72,000 troops would be in place to protect 5,000 polling centers set up across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two blasts and a rocket attack have marred the opening of Afghanistan&#8217;s presidential election. Explosions and a rocket attack left two people dead and several others wounded in\u00a0 Afghanistan on Saturday, hours after voting began to elect a new president. A hospital official in the southern city of Kandahar said 15 people were injured in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}