{"id":1814,"date":"2019-08-18T06:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2019-08-18T06:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:26:45","slug":"at-least-63-people-were-killed-and-more-than-180-others-were-wounded-when-a-suicide-bomber-targeted-a-wedding-hall-in-the-west-of-kabul-packed-with-hundreds-of-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"At least 63 people were killed and more than 180 others were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a wedding hall in the west of Kabul, packed with hundreds of guests."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi confirmed the casualties and said the blast was a suicide bombing.<br \/>\nHe said the explosion happened at around 10:40 pm on Saturday.<br \/>\nSources and eyewitnesses said the hall was packed with guests when the explosion happened.<br \/>\nThe Shahr-e-Dubai wedding hall is located in police district 6 (PD6) which covers areas like Faiz Mohammad Katib Road and Char Qala-e-Char Dehi area.<br \/>\nFootage on social media shows women screaming outside the wedding hall, while they are shocked by the explosion.<br \/>\nSources said the casualties might be high.<br \/>\nWedding ceremonies in Afghanistan are often attended by more than 400 guests.<br \/>\nTaliban in a statement rejected any involvement in the attack and said they condemn the incidents which target women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi confirmed the casualties and said the blast was a suicide bombing. He said the explosion happened at around 10:40 pm on Saturday. Sources and eyewitnesses said the hall was packed with guests when the explosion happened. The Shahr-e-Dubai wedding hall is located in police district 6 (PD6) which covers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}