{"id":176704,"date":"2021-11-14T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=176704"},"modified":"2021-11-14T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:33:34","slug":"2-police-officers-among-7-people-injured-in-bomb-blast-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/2-police-officers-among-7-people-injured-in-bomb-blast-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"2 police officers among 7 people injured in bomb blast in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karachi, Nov 13 (PTI) A remote-controlled bomb went off in the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of the province of Balochistan, wounding seven people, including two police officials, a senior police officer said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The blast targeted a police van close to a high security area in Nawa Killi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Asad Nasir told the media that the bomb weighing around 4-5 kilogrammes was fitted on a motorcycle parked on the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The target was a police eagles squad van and when it passed by, the bomb was detonated by remote control, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the seven people injured in the blast, two are police officials, while the rest are civilians, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Security forces and rescue officials rushed to the area following the explosion. The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta and the area has been cordoned off, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Balochistan has been witnessing a spate of low-level violence for years. The local Baloch nationalists, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and the Taliban militants mostly claim responsibility for such attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, the United States designated the BLA, which is fighting the Pakistani rule in Balochistan province, as a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Nov 13 (PTI) A remote-controlled bomb went off in the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of the province of Balochistan, wounding seven people, including two police officials, a senior police officer said on Saturday. The blast targeted a police van close to a high security area in Nawa Killi. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}