{"id":37816,"date":"2021-10-08T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/deadly-bomb-attack-hits-shia-mosque-in-afghan-city-of-kunduz"},"modified":"2021-10-09T01:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:36:43","slug":"shia-mosque-bombing-kills-dozens-in-afghan-city-of-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37816","title":{"rendered":"Shia mosque bombing kills dozens in Afghan city of Kunduz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large number of worshippers killed or wounded during Friday prayers in blast claimed by ISKP<\/p>\n<p>At least 100 worshippers have been killed or injured in a suicide bombing that targeted a packed Shia mosque in Afghanistan during Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibility for the blast, which took place in Kunduz, the capital of the province of the same name in the north-east of the country, was claimed by the Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which has a long history of attacking Afghanistan\u2019s Shia minority, who make up about 15-20% of the population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/deadly-bomb-attack-hits-shia-mosque-in-afghan-city-of-kunduz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large number of worshippers killed or wounded during Friday prayers in blast claimed by ISKPAt least 100 worshippers have been killed or injured in a suicide bombing that targeted a packed Shia mosque in Afghanistan during Friday prayers.Responsibility&#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":[46,471,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","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\/37816","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=37816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37816\/revisions\/37824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}