{"id":5704,"date":"2018-04-10T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5704-at-least-8-killed-in-powerful-explosion-in-afghanistan-s-herat\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:38:09","slug":"at-least-8-killed-in-powerful-explosion-in-afghanistan-s-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5704-at-least-8-killed-in-powerful-explosion-in-afghanistan-s-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 8 killed in powerful explosion in Afghanistan&#8217;s Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from explosives placed on a motorbike has claimed the lives of at least eight people, including four children, in Afghanistan\u2019s western Herat province, local officials say.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>A blast from explosives placed on a motorbike has claimed the lives of at least eight people, including four children, in Afghanistan\u2019s western Herat province, local officials say.<\/h4>\n<h4>Jilani Farhad, a spokesman for Herat&#8217;s governor, said that the explosion happened near a mosque in Shindand district on Monday.<\/h4>\n<h4>Farhad noted that two girls and two boys were among those killed. Nine more children were also injured in the deadly blast, which sent shockwaves through the troubled region.<\/h4>\n<h4>According to initial information, the blast was caused by explosives placed in a three-wheeler rickshaw controlled from far.<\/h4>\n<h4>No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/h4>\n<h4>In late March, at least two attackers struck a Shia mosque in the western city of Herat, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from explosives placed on a motorbike has claimed the lives of at least eight people, including four children, in Afghanistan\u2019s western Herat province, local officials say. \u00a0 \u00a0 A blast from explosives placed on a motorbike has claimed the lives of at least eight people, including four children, in Afghanistan\u2019s western Herat province, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,1127,670,489],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-herat","tag-kill","tag-people"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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