{"id":186231,"date":"2016-02-01T14:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=186231"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:56:04","slug":"deadly-suicide-attack-rocks-afghanistans-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=186231","title":{"rendered":"Deadly suicide attack rocks Afghanistan&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were killed and 25 wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up trying to enter a police building in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul, a senior police source has told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>The area was sealed off by police as ambulances rushed to the scene of what witnesses described as a powerful blast on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said the attack happened at about 2pm local time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a civil order police building in the centre of the city,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack was five days before another scheduled round of peace talks in the presence of Afghan, Pakistan, Chinese and US officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kabul was hit by a series of suicide attacks last month, including one that killed seven journalists from a private television station, as the Taliban stepped up its campaign against the Western-backed government.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks coincided with renewed efforts to revive a peace process with the armed group that stalled last year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"\/mritems\/Images\/2016\/2\/1\/d58d24fc9d4e40ba9152165bd62b2645_18.jpg\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were killed and 25 wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up trying to enter a police building in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul, a senior police source has told Al Jazeera. The area was sealed off by police as ambulances rushed to the scene of what witnesses described as a powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186231","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}