{"id":48005,"date":"2019-10-28T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48005"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:24:09","slug":"five-children-killed-in-n-afghan-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48005","title":{"rendered":"Five Children Killed In N. Afghan Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Oct 28 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Five Afghan children were dead, after a Taliban&#8217;s improvised explosive device (IED) detonated, in the country&#8217;s northern Faryab province on Sunday, a local source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The blast occurred after one of the victims stepped on a pressure-plate IED, in a village of Pashtun Kot district,&#8221; Hanif Rezai, spokesman of army Corps 209, Shaheen, based in the region, told Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next of kin of the victims were notified and one child was also wounded in the incident, Rezai added. He blamed the Taliban militant group for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliban militants have been using home-made IED&#8217;s to make roadside bombs and landmines, targeting security forces, but the lethal home-made weapons also inflict casualties on civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghan civilians continue to bear the brunt of armed conflicts, as more than 2,560 civilians were killed and over 5,670 others injured, in conflict-related incidents in the first nine months of this year, according to figures released by the UN mission in the country.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Oct 28 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Five Afghan children were dead, after a Taliban&#8217;s improvised explosive device (IED) detonated, in the country&#8217;s northern Faryab province on Sunday, a local source said. &#8220;The blast occurred after one of the victims stepped on a pressure-plate IED, in a village of Pashtun Kot district,&#8221; Hanif Rezai, spokesman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48005"}],"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=48005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}