{"id":71688,"date":"2020-12-19T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71688"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:48:56","slug":"explosion-at-religious-gathering-in-central-afghanistan-kills-at-least-15-civilians-afghan-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71688-explosion-at-religious-gathering-in-central-afghanistan-kills-at-least-15-civilians-afghan-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at religious gathering in central Afghanistan kills at least 15 civilians: Afghan official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-19_16-49-01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others on Friday, the country\u2019s interior ministry said, adding that children may be among the victims.<br>Those killed and wounded were attending a Qur&#8217;an recitation ceremony.<br>Initial information suggested that explosives were placed in a rickshaw in a district of central Ghazni province, interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others on Friday, the country\u2019s interior ministry said, adding that children may be among the victims.Those killed and wounded were attending a Qur&#8217;an recitation ceremony.Initial information suggested that explosives were placed in a rickshaw in a district of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71696,"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":[25,7,31],"tags":[43,565,673,1427],"class_list":["post-71688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islam","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-civilians","tag-explosion","tag-religious"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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