{"id":738,"date":"2020-12-21T02:11:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T02:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=738"},"modified":"2020-12-21T02:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T02:11:25","slug":"bomb-kills-15-children-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Bomb kills 15 children in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has killed 15 children and injured another 20 people in the east Afghan province of Ghazni, officials and police sources say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/115343\/eight_col_afg_rnz.jpg?1608344079\" alt=\"No caption\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A security guard in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after another recent bombing.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The reason for the explosion in the Gilan district is unclear with officials saying a bomb went off in the back of a rickshaw.<\/p>\n<p>But local residents suggest a piece of unexploded ordnance blew up when children tried to sell it to a vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban militants also say the blast was accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion happened close to a house where a Koran recital ceremony was under way.<\/p>\n<p>A bomb went off after a man driving a motorised rickshaw entered the village and was surrounded by children, Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesperson for the Ghazni provincial governor, was quoted as saying in the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the death toll could be higher.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Ahmad Khan accused the Taliban of carrying out an attack, AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Giving a lower death toll of 12, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said children had brought unexploded ordnance to the vendor and it had exploded, AP added.<\/p>\n<p>Levels of violence in the country have remained high despite the start of negotiations between Afghan and Taliban officials.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; BBC<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has killed 15 children and injured another 20 people in the east Afghan province of Ghazni, officials and police sources say. A security guard in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after another recent bombing.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0AFP The reason for the explosion in the Gilan district is unclear with officials saying a bomb went off in the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}