{"id":30383,"date":"2021-03-30T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/three-female-health-workers-shot-dead-in-east-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-03-31T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:44:40","slug":"three-female-health-workers-shot-dead-in-east-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30383","title":{"rendered":"Taliban denies killing three female Afghan polio workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaign<\/p>\n<p>Two female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, government officials confirmed that an explosion had rocked Jalalabad\u2019s health ministry headquarters but no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/three-female-health-workers-shot-dead-in-east-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaignTwo female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afgha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"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":[46,59,566,346,471,60,900,79,61,44,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-islamic-state","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/30383","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30403,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions\/30403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}