{"id":24390,"date":"2020-11-02T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/gunmen-storm-kabul-university-afghanistan-attack"},"modified":"2020-11-03T03:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:14:17","slug":"at-least-19-people-dead-after-gunmen-storm-kabul-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24390","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Kabul University by Isis gunmen leaves 22 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan government declares day of mourning after incident in which attackers shot dead<\/p>\n<p>At least 22 people were killed and 22 wounded after Islamic State-affiliated gunmen stormed Kabul University as it was hosting a book fair attended by Iran\u2019s ambassador to Afghanistan, taking hostages and fighting gun battles with security forces for more than five hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan government has declared Tuesday a national day of mourning following the attack. Three attackers shot at fleeing students and gunned down others in their classrooms in what was the second assault on an educational facility in the country in recent weeks. The gunmen were shot dead by Afghan security forces, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/02\/gunmen-storm-kabul-university-afghanistan-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan government declares day of mourning after incident in which attackers shot deadAt least 22 people were killed and 22 wounded after Islamic State-affiliated gunmen stormed Kabul University as it was hosting a book fair attended by Iran\u2019s ambassad&#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":[46,448,212,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390","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=24390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24397,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions\/24397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}