{"id":13239,"date":"2026-05-17T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/three-armed-robbers-killed-helmand-security-forces-gereshk\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:45:20","slug":"three-armed-robbers-killed-helmand-security-forces-gereshk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/three-armed-robbers-killed-helmand-security-forces-gereshk\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Armed Robbers Killed in Gunfight with Security Forces in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Helmand have reported that three armed robbers were killed following an attack on a currency exchange in the center of Gereshk district, during a confrontation with security forces. In the incident, two local residents were also injured.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Bari Rashid, Head of Information and Culture in Helmand under the Taliban administration, stated that the assailants entered a currency exchange with weapons and attempted a robbery. According to him, security forces arrived promptly at the scene and engaged the attackers in an armed clash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information provided, all three attackers were killed as a result of the firefight. No further details have been released regarding the condition of the injured or the amount of money stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Gereshk district is considered one of the busy areas of Helmand, and similar security incidents have been reported there in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three armed robbers were killed in a firefight with security forces during a robbery at a currency exchange in Helmand&#8217;s Gereshk district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13239","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\/13239","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=13239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}