{"id":10136,"date":"2019-10-01T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T08:21:46","slug":"taliban-attack-kills-at-least-11-policemen-afghan-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10136","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack kills at least 11 policemen \u2013 Afghan officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban launched a multi-pronged attack on a district headquarters in a remote district in northern Afghanistan early on Tuesday, killing at least 11 policemen and triggering a gunbattle that was still under way hours later, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the Shortepa district headquarters in northern Balkh province started early in the morning, according to Munir Ahmad Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the insurgents had overrun the district, a claim that Farhad denied. The spokesman said reinforcements were on their way to Shortepa.<\/p>\n<p>The district is very remote, said Mohammad Afzel Hadid, head of the Balkh provincial council, adding that he fears the casualty toll could rise further unless reinforcement arrives promptly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope reinforcements arrive sooner rather than later, it is a remote area with very poor communications,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least 68 attacks by the Taliban across the country during election day, most of them rockets fired from distant outposts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban launched a multi-pronged attack on a district headquarters in a remote district in northern Afghanistan early on Tuesday, killing at least 11 policemen and triggering a gunbattle that was still under way hours later, officials said. The attack on the Shortepa district headquarters in northern Balkh province started early in the morning, according [&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-10136","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\/10136","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=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10138,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}