{"id":400040,"date":"2020-08-10T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400040"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:24:57","slug":"blast-kills-5-in-southwestern-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/blast-kills-5-in-southwestern-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast kills 5 in southwestern Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:At least five people were killed and another ten injured in an explosion in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, police and local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion is the latest in a series of similar incidents occurred in the remote Chaman district, a gateway to the neighboring Afghanistan, and a key NATO route.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked outside a construction site on Mall Road, the city&#8217;s downtown, and was detonated via remote control, local broadcaster Geo News reported, quoting unnamed police officials.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight injured were reported to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspended traffic into Afghanistan via the Chaman border following the explosion, the channel said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage aired on Geo News showed the site strewn with broken glass as panicked bystanders sought cover in nearby streets.<\/p>\n<p>No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI (SONNA):At least five people were killed and another ten injured in an explosion in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, police and local media reported. The explosion is the latest in a series of similar incidents occurred in the remote Chaman district, a gateway to the neighboring Afghanistan, and a key NATO route. The bomb was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400043,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400040\/revisions\/400043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}