{"id":247689,"date":"2024-09-03T00:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247689"},"modified":"2024-09-03T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T18:47:54","slug":"a-roadside-bomb-hits-a-bus-in-northern-pakistan-and-kills-3-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/a-roadside-bomb-hits-a-bus-in-northern-pakistan-and-kills-3-people\/","title":{"rendered":"A roadside bomb hits a bus in northern Pakistan and kills 3 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 2 Sep (AP) \u2014 A roadside bomb struck a bus in northern Pakistan on Monday, killing three people including two security officials, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another passenger was injured in the attack in Kohistan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police chief Abdul Rahim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bus was heading to Dasu district, where Pakistan\u2019s biggest hydropower project is being built with Chinese help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion was likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks on security forces in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, has a strong presence in the area. It is separate from the Afghan Taliban but allied to it and has been emboldened since the Afghan Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 2 Sep (AP) \u2014 A roadside bomb struck a bus in northern Pakistan on Monday, killing three people including two security officials, police said. Another passenger was injured in the attack in Kohistan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to local police chief Abdul Rahim. The bus was heading to Dasu district, [&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-247689","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\/247689","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=247689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}