{"id":10253,"date":"2019-10-19T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/18\/mosque-bombing-kills-62-people-in-eastern-afghanistan"},"modified":"2019-10-19T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:32:13","slug":"mosque-bombing-kills-62-people-in-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10253","title":{"rendered":"Mosque bombing kills 62 people in eastern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militant attack caused roof to collapse as worshippers met for Friday prayers<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-two people have died after an explosion at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan caused the roof to collapse on worshippers gathered for Friday prayers. The attack underscored the record numbers of civilians dying in the country\u2019s 18-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said the militant attack wounded 36 others. He said it was not immediately clear whether the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber or it was some other type of bombing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/18\/mosque-bombing-kills-62-people-in-eastern-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militant attack caused roof to collapse as worshippers met for Friday prayersSixty-two people have died after an explosion at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan caused the roof to collapse on worshippers gathered for Friday prayers. The attack underscored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,471,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}