{"id":53284,"date":"2019-01-23T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=53284"},"modified":"2019-01-23T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:17:29","slug":"65-killed-in-taliban-attack-on-afghan-intel-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/65-killed-in-taliban-attack-on-afghan-intel-base\/","title":{"rendered":"65 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan intel base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, security sources said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Militants detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at the training facility before gunmen arrived in a car and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,\u201d Mohammad Sardar Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the attack occurred on Monday in the latest blow to beleaguered security forces.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday provincial officials told AFP just 12 people had been killed in the attack. Figures given by officials to other media ranged from 12 dead to more than 100 killed. The attackers were killed quickly, he said, but most of the casualties were caused by the roof collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a big loss,\u201d council head Akhtar Mohammad Tahiri said. \u201cThe NDS forces are better trained and equipped than the Afghan police and army soldiers who have been dying in record numbers.\u201d He added the militants were dressed in uniforms used by Afghan special forces.<\/p>\n<p>It saw militants ram a Humvee filled with explosives into the National Directorate of Security base in Maidan Shahr, the capital of Wardak, which lies about 50 kilometres south of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes days after a Taliban suicide bomber targeted the convoy of Logar province\u2019s governor, killing at least seven security guards.<\/p>\n<p>Fights between security forces and Taliban fighters have continued to intensify across the country during the freezing Afghan winter, which traditionally experiences a reduction in combat.<\/p>\n<p>The recent skirmishes come as the Taliban announced a resumption of talks with US officials in Qatar as the two sides discuss a possible peace deal that could pave the way for the insurgents participation in the next government.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, security sources said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously. Militants detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at the training facility before gunmen arrived in a car and opened fire. \u201cWe took about 65 bodies out of the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53286,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284\/revisions\/53286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}