{"id":19880,"date":"2026-08-17T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/kabul-private-school-explosion-52-wounded\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:40:15","slug":"kabul-private-school-explosion-52-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/kabul-private-school-explosion-52-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at private school in Kabul leaves 52 wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say at least 52 people were wounded after an explosion at the Sham-e Hidayat private school in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at about 4:55 p.m. on Monday in the Mahdia township, which is part of Kabul&#8217;s 18th security district.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the explosion was caused by a hand grenade, which was in the possession of one of the students.<\/p>\n<p>The Sham-e Hidayat school is located in western Kabul, an area that has repeatedly witnessed security incidents in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 52 people were wounded in an explosion at the Sham-e Hidayat private school in Kabul, officials and sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19880","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\/19880","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=19880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}