{"id":8624,"date":"2013-05-16T20:08:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2013-05-16T20:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:08:42","slug":"six-americans-killed-in-kabul-car-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=8624","title":{"rendered":"Six Americans Killed in Kabul Car Bomb Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8622\" alt=\"ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ap_Afghanistan_kabul_suicide_bomber_debris_thg_130515_wg-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Six Americans &#8212; two soldiers and four civilian contractors &#8212; are among at least 14 people killed in a massive car bomb blast in Kabul this morning, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 Afghan civilians, including a number of children, were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened just after 8 a.m. The bomber drove a car filled with explosives directly into a military convoy as it drove through the city. The explosion was so powerful it reduced a series of vehicles to piles of twisted, mangled metal, and set nearby buildings on fire. The scene was quickly secured by <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/news\/world\/nato.htm\">NATO<\/a> troops, as fires smoldered on the freshly blackened street. Some of the bodies were so badly burned they were difficult to identify.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group Hezb-Islami, run by notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, quickly claimed responsibility, saying they targeted a convoy carrying American military advisers. A statement by the group&#8217;s spokesperson says it has formed a special cell to carry out attacks on U.S. targets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Americans &#8212; two soldiers and four civilian contractors &#8212; are among at least 14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}