{"id":131719,"date":"2015-07-06T05:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131719"},"modified":"2015-07-05T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T19:10:44","slug":"afghanistan-men-throw-acid-into-girls-faces-for-going-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131719","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Men throw acid into girls&#8217; faces &#8216;for going to school&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attackers on a motorbike threw acid in the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school in Afghanistan&#8217;s western Herat province on Saturday, an official told CNN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girls, age 16 to 18, are students at one of the biggest girls&#8217; schools in Herat city, the provincial capital, said Aziz-ul-Rahman Sarwary, head of the education department for the province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All three girls were admitted to Noor hospital in Herat city before their parents took them elsewhere, said hospital head Jamal Abdul Naser Akhundzada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two of the girls were in critical condition after the acid was thrown in their faces, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Akhundzada quoted the girls as saying that their assailants were two men on a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is the punishment for going to school,&#8221; the men told the girls after pouring the acid on them, according to Akhundzada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said police were working very hard to find the attackers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers on a motorbike threw acid in the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school in Afghanistan&#8217;s western Herat province on Saturday, an official told CNN. The girls, age 16 to 18, are students at one of the biggest girls&#8217; schools in Herat city, the provincial capital, said Aziz-ul-Rahman Sarwary, head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":131726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-131719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}