{"id":69726,"date":"2020-11-29T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/11\/29\/officials-say-34-killed-in-separate-suicide-bombings-targeting-afghan-forces-provincial-official\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:54:49","slug":"officials-say-34-killed-in-separate-suicide-bombings-targeting-afghan-forces-provincial-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2020\/11\/29\/officials-say-34-killed-in-separate-suicide-bombings-targeting-afghan-forces-provincial-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials say 34 killed in separate suicide bombings targeting Afghan forces, provincial official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GHAZNI, Afghanistan \u2014 At least 34 people were killed on Sunday in two separate suicide bombings in Afghanistan that targeted a military base and a provincial chief, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks, which took place as Afghan government representatives and the Taliban hold face-to-face talks in Qatar<\/a> for the first time to end the country\u2019s decades-long war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In eastern Ghazni province, 31 soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded when the attacker drove a military Humvee full of explosives onto an army commando base before detonating the car bomb, according to an official in Afghanistan\u2019s National Security Council, who spoke anonymously because he was not permitted to speak directly to the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghazni\u2019s provincial health department chief, Zahir Shah Nikmal, also confirmed the death toll and casualty figures from the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\t