{"id":31627,"date":"2021-05-01T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T01:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/afghanistan-killed-bomb-blast-us-prepares-to-withdraw-troops"},"modified":"2021-05-01T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T01:50:45","slug":"afghanistan-at-least-21-killed-in-blast-as-us-prepares-to-withdraw-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31627","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: At least 21 killed in blast as US prepares to withdraw troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores also injured in the blast in southern city of Pul-e-Alam the day before Pentagon begins to pull out its remaining forces<\/p>\n<p>At least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after a car bomb exploded in an Afghan city south of the capital that president Ashraf Ghani has blamed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s blast occurred in a residential area of Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar province, as people were breaking their Ramadan fast, and came on the eve of the formal start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/all-nato-troops-expected-to-leave-afghanistan-before-11-september\">US military\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/01\/afghanistan-killed-bomb-blast-us-prepares-to-withdraw-troops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores also injured in the blast in southern city of Pul-e-Alam the day before Pentagon begins to pull out its remaining forcesAt least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after a car bomb exploded in an Afghan city south of the capital t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/31627","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31628,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627\/revisions\/31628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}