{"id":90160,"date":"2014-06-07T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=90160"},"modified":"2014-06-07T07:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T03:02:19","slug":"afghan-candidates-convoy-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=90160","title":{"rendered":"Afghan candidate&#8217;s convoy attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/afghanistan-convoy-attack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90158\" alt=\"afghanistan-convoy-attack\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/afghanistan-convoy-attack.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/afghanistan-convoy-attack.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/afghanistan-convoy-attack-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/afghanistan-convoy-attack-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least six people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when explosions hit a campaign rally for one of Afghanistan&#8217;s two presidential runoff candidates at a hotel in Kabul on Friday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The convoy of candidate Abdullah Abdullah was attacked in Kabul, spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah and his running mates were not hurt, but the candidate&#8217;s car was severely damaged, Sediqqi said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were two explosions, Sediqqi said: One was a suicide attack and the other a possible roadside bomb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani are campaigning for Afghanistan&#8217;s June 14 runoff election to succeed Hamid Karzai.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah, a former foreign minister, garnered 45% of the vote in the first round, and Ghani, a former finance minister, earned 31%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; At least six people were killed and more than a dozen others injured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":90158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[10921],"class_list":["post-90160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-afghan-candidate","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90160","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=90160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}