{"id":10971,"date":"2019-10-19T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T06:21:07","slug":"blasts-in-afghanistan-mosque-kill-62-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10971","title":{"rendered":"Twin Blasts in Afghanistan Mosque Kill 62 Worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 62 worshipers killed and more than 100 others wounded\u00a0 in\u00a0 twin blasts that targeted a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The force of the blast, in eastern Nangarhar province, destroyed the building&#8217;s roof, eyewitnesses said. The mosque sits in the district of Haska Mina, about 50km (30 miles) from the provincial capital Jalalabad.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear who carried out the attack. The Taliban have denied they were behind the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council in Nangarhar, said\u00a0 The number of casualties may rise as the rescue team and people are working to bring out the bodies from the rubble,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, strongly condemned the attack by posting a statement on Twitter\u00a0 &#8220;The Afghan government strongly condemns today&#8217;s suicide attack in a mosque in Nangarhar province,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released a report showing record-high levels of civilian casualties in the first nine months of 2019, indicating an urgent need for all parties to the conflict to do more to protect civilians from harm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10982\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc-768x913.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/108749258_afghanistan_deadliest_day_640_3x-nc-861x1024.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Overall, in the first nine months of 2019, UNAMA documented 8,239 civilian casualties (2,563 killed and 5,676 injured).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 62 worshipers killed and more than 100 others wounded\u00a0 in\u00a0 twin blasts that targeted a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials confirmed. The force of the blast, in eastern Nangarhar province, destroyed the building&#8217;s roof, eyewitnesses said. The mosque sits in the district of Haska Mina, about 50km (30 miles) from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","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=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10984,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions\/10984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}