{"id":44233,"date":"2019-09-28T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44233"},"modified":"2019-09-28T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T07:09:02","slug":"15-injured-as-blast-hits-afghanistans-kandahar-city-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44233","title":{"rendered":"15 Injured As Blast Hits Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar City On Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept 28 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Up to 15 people were wounded, as a blast hit Kandahar city, provincial capital of southern Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar province, today (Saturday), an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial police spokesman, Jamal Barikzai, said, investigation is underway to determine the reason for the blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, an official said, the blast hit a polling centre in the first Police District of Kandahar city, injuring 15 people, including a security personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 9.4 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots, amid tight security from 7:00 a.m. (0230 GMT) to 3:00 p.m. (1030 GMT) local time today (Saturday), to select the country&#8217;s next president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, and the government Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, are among the 18 candidates vying for the presidency, in the war-torn country.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept 28 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Up to 15 people were wounded, as a blast hit Kandahar city, provincial capital of southern Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar province, today (Saturday), an official said. Provincial police spokesman, Jamal Barikzai, said, investigation is underway to determine the reason for the blast. Meanwhile, an official said, the blast hit a polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,291,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}