{"id":9751,"date":"2019-09-24T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:58:00","slug":"afghan-forces-kill-up-to-40-wedding-guests-during-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9751","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Forces Kill up to 40 Wedding Guests During Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least\u00a0 40 civilians attending a wedding party were killed and 13 others wounded by explosions and gunfire during a raid by the United States-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby militant hideout, two officials in southern Helmand province said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said the house being used by the Taliban to train suicide bombers was located adjacent to the bride&#8217;s home that came under fire during Sunday night&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said the raid was against \u201ca foreign terrorist group actively engaged in organising terrorist attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A provincial council member, Abdul Majid Akhundzadah, said 40 people, all civilians,\u00a0 near to the attack site in the Khaksar area of Musa Qala district were killed and 13 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The defence ministry said the Taliban hideout was also used by foreign nationals working for the hardline group.<\/p>\n<p>A senior US defence official in Afghanistan said the operation was aimed against Al Qaeda fighters but did not give any details about civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Several civilians at a wedding party were killed and 18 members of the Afghan forces died in the fighting, the Taliban said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least\u00a0 40 civilians attending a wedding party were killed and 13 others wounded by explosions and gunfire during a raid by the United States-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby militant hideout, two officials in southern Helmand province said on Monday. The officials said the house being used by the Taliban to train suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9751","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\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9753,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/9753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}