{"id":215062,"date":"2020-06-29T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/23-killed-in-blast-at-cattle-market-in-southern-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:31:54","slug":"23-killed-in-blast-at-cattle-market-in-southern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/23-killed-in-blast-at-cattle-market-in-southern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"23 Killed In Blast At Cattle Market In Southern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\">Kabul, Afghanistan: <\/p>\n<p>At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan&#039;s southern Helmand province and dozens were injured when rockets fell on a cattle market on Monday, said Afghan government and Taliban officials.<\/p>\n<p>The warring sides blamed each other for the attack on the open-air weekly cattle market in Sangin district where hundreds of villagers from neighbouring districts had gathered to trade sheep and goats.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Helmand&#039;s governor said the several rockets fired by Taliban insurgents landed close to the cattle market, killing 23 civilians, including children.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban officials blamed the government officials for killing the civilians.<\/p>\n<p>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n<p> Comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul, Afghanistan: At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan&#039;s southern Helmand province and dozens were injured when rockets fell on a cattle market on Monday, said Afghan government and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}