{"id":10992,"date":"2026-04-20T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/nimroz-police-night-gunfire-drone-security-measures\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:15:27","slug":"nimroz-police-night-gunfire-drone-security-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/nimroz-police-night-gunfire-drone-security-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimroz Police Explain Nighttime Gunfire as Security Measures Against Drone Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nimroz provincial police headquarters stated that the sounds of gunfire heard in some areas of the province last night are not a cause for concern and were part of security and defense measures carried out by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) was detected in Nimroz&#8217;s airspace, and security forces took necessary actions to ensure the safety and protection of the country&#8217;s airspace. No further details have been provided about the origin or type of the drone.<\/p>\n<p>Smunyar Mullah Gul Mohammad Qadrat, spokesperson for the Nimroz police command, confirmed the situation is under control and there is no threat to the residents of the province.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the Taliban administration assures full security, the lack of detailed information about the nature of the incident and how the drone may have entered the country&#8217;s airspace has raised questions among citizens about the transparency and oversight capacities of security institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimroz police confirm nighttime gunfire was part of security measures against a drone incursion, assuring residents there is no threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}