{"id":3932,"date":"2014-12-14T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2014-12-14T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T07:32:04","slug":"multiple-attacks-kill-many-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/12\/14\/3932\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple attacks kill many in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/kabul-bomb-bus.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Several attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country&#8217;s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman Farid Ahmad Obaid told the Associated Press news agency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ghulam Farouk Parwani, a military commander at the camp, told Al Jazeera that six workers were also wounded in the attack in Helmand.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The de-miners, who lived on the base, were reportedly travelling to work in the Nad Ali district when they were attacked, Parwani said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Afghan army and the air force launched a counterattack, killing four of the assailants and capturing three, he told Al Jazeera.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meawnhile, a suicide attack on Saturday evening in the Afghan capital killed seven government troops, and injured 18 others, including civilians.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reports said the military bus was burnt down after the attacker, who was on foot, detonated himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tenuous security <\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">News of the attacks in Kabul and Helmand came just hours after Afghan authorities said a senior official of the country&#8217;s Supreme Court had been shot and killed in the capital, Kabul.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack that killed Atiqullah Rawoofi, the head of the secretariat of Afghanistan&#8217;s Supreme Court.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farid Afzali, chief of Kabul police&#8217;s criminal investigation unit, said the attack occurred early on Saturday morning near Rawoofi&#8217;s home in a northwestern Kabul neighbourhood.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A colleague of Rawoofi, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said two men on a motorbike shot Rawoofi as he was walking from his home to his car.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Taliban claimed responsibility for all the attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said security was a huge task for the Afghan National Army (ANA) as the NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There is a lot of concerns among Afghans here about security and how tenuous it is. 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