{"id":414720,"date":"2023-03-06T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=414720"},"modified":"2023-03-06T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T10:25:45","slug":"suspected-suicide-attack-kills-at-least-nine-police-officers-in-southwestern-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/suspected-suicide-attack-kills-at-least-nine-police-officers-in-southwestern-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected suicide attack kills at least nine police officers in southwestern Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_0F61E482-2EC9-B268-98D2-B5A7B02E1456@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\"><em><strong>Quetta, Pakistan (SONNA)-:<\/strong><\/em> At least nine police officers were killed and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast in Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0restive Balochistan province on Monday, authorities said, the latest in a string of recent attacks against security personnel in the South Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_F5FED2A9-6AC4-7F0A-2022-B5CB19E626E8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Kachhi Police senior superintendent Mehmood Notezai said a vehicle carrying policemen was targeted in the province\u2019s Sibi district. \u201cPreliminary evidence suggests it was a suicide attack,\u201d he said, adding an investigation was underway. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_37BCCFD8-B270-A021-B36D-B5B0211ACF1D@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Among the injured officers, three remain in critical condition and are receiving hospital treatment, Sibi\u2019s Combined Military Hospital administration said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_A517FCC3-8643-82C0-7850-B5AB56A7E7B9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Balochistan, Pakistan\u2019s largest province by area, has seen a decades-long insurgency by separatists who demand independence from the country, citing what they say is the state\u2019s monopoly and exploitation of the region\u2019s mineral resources.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_A517FCC3-8643-82C0-7850-B5AB56A7E7B9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_A517FCC3-8643-82C0-7850-B5AB56A7E7B9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\"><em><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quetta, Pakistan (SONNA)-: At least nine police officers were killed and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast in Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0restive Balochistan province on Monday, authorities said, the latest in a string of recent attacks against security personnel in the South Asian nation. Kachhi Police senior superintendent Mehmood Notezai said a vehicle carrying policemen was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":414721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414720","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414722,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414720\/revisions\/414722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}