{"id":3875,"date":"2014-11-09T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2014-11-09T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T07:00:16","slug":"blast-hits-kabul-police-chief-s-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/11\/09\/3875\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast hits Kabul police chief&#8217;s headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em; color: #000000;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/afghan-blast.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 4px;\" \/>An explosion has occured at the police headquarters in Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least one senior officer and wounding six others, officials have said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;A suicide bomber in military uniform carried out the attack on the third floor of the building, where my office is located,&#8221; Kabul&#8217;s chief of police General Mohammad Zahir Zahir told AP news agency on Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I am fine, but one of my best officers, my chief of staff Yassin Khan, was killed and six were wounded,&#8221; Zahir added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;As he [assailant] was stopped [by security] while trying to enter my room, he detonated his explosives.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interior Ministry Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said that the explosion happened at police chief&#8217;s office at about 9am (0430 GMT).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The explosion came about two hours after another blast reportedly occured in Kabul.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Defence Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Zahair Azimi said the prior explosion was an attack on an Afghan army vehicle that resulted in no casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Taliban claim responsibility<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taliban fighters have reportedly claimed responsility for both attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said on his Twitter account: &#8220;This morning at around 9am, a martyrdrom attack was carried out by Maulawi Yaya Badakhshani inside Kabul police HQ while foreign advisors and police were meeting&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kabul is regularly hit by Taliban bombings, with the military, police and government officials among those targeted despite heightening security with multiple checkpoints, guard posts and armed convoys.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last major blast, four Afghan soldiers were killed and around a dozen people &#8211; including six civilians &#8211; wounded when a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded on October 21.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That blast was a remote-controlled bomb targeting an Afghan army bus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afghan soldiers and police have taken on the lead role in thwarting the Taliban, but national stability could be at risk as US-led NATO troops pull out.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year alone more than 4,600 Afghan soldiers and police have been killed in fighting, according to recent US figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion has occured at the police headquarters in Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least one senior officer and wounding six others, officials have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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