{"id":9608,"date":"2010-12-16T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2010-12-16T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T11:48:11","slug":"bomb-hit-on-afghan-minibus-kills-14-16122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/bomb-hit-on-afghan-minibus-kills-14-16122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb hit on Afghan minibus kills 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/minubus-blast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9610\" title=\"minibus blast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/minubus-blast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/minubus-blast.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/minubus-blast-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A roadside bomb destroyed a crowded minibus Thursday in western Afghanistan, killing 14 passengers who were all members of an extended family, a provincial official said.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nRafi Behrozan, the spokesman for the Herat governor, said four others were wounded in the powerful blast in the Kushk Kuhna district of Herat province.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional bombs found nearby on the same road were defused by Afghan policemen, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explosion was very strong and the vehicle was destroyed. The majority of these aboard were killed,&#8221; Behrozan said.<\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday, NATO said a coalition airstrike the previous day killed four Afghan soldiers after they were mistaken for militants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the soldiers had left their base in Helmand&#8217;s Musa Qala district on Wednesday night when they came under fire from NATO planes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NATO told the Afghan government that the coalition thought the men were militants, he added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for NATO forces, Capt. Ciro Parisi of the Italian army, said a team has been sent to investigate the incident. He would not confirm any of the details of Azimi&#8217;s account, citing the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>There have been other incidents this year in which NATO troops mistakenly killed Afghan forces.<\/p>\n<p>In August, three Afghan policemen were killed in northern Jowzjan province in an airstrike aimed at insurgents who were attacking them. In July, In July, a botched NATO airstrike killed six Afghan soldiers in Ghazni province in the east. The coalition said the Afghan army unit gave the wrong location to international forces.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadside bomb destroyed a crowded minibus Thursday in western Afghanistan, killing 14 passengers who were all members of an extended family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,14],"tags":[13543,2595,13539,13542,961,13541,13540,591,13544,13538],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-afghan-defense-ministry-spokesman-gen-mohammad-zahir-azimi","tag-afghanistan","tag-destroy","tag-herat","tag-italy","tag-kushk-kuhna","tag-minibus","tag-nato","tag-nato-plane","tag-roadside-bomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}