{"id":10832,"date":"2011-01-17T12:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10832"},"modified":"2011-01-17T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T10:30:08","slug":"blast-in-van-18-killed-17012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/blast-in-van-18-killed-17012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in van, 18 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pakistan-blast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10833\" title=\"pakistan-blast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pakistan-blast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pakistan-blast.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/pakistan-blast-280x190.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>A planted bomb caused a blast that killed at least 18 people traveling in a passenger van in northwest Pakistan Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of explosives were planted inside the van, police official Islam Ud-Din said. He said an earlier police report indicating that the explosion was caused by a head-on crash between two passenger vans was inaccurate.<br \/>\nEarlier Monday, police said 11 people were injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion went off when the van was traveling from the district of Hangu to the bordering district of Kohat, Ud-Din said. It also damaged a second passenger van that was traveling nearby, he said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why the passenger van was targeted, but the district of Hangu sits in a region plagued by sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.<\/p>\n<p>Last March, a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying Shia passengers in Hangu, and a suicide car bomb rammed into a Shia hospital there in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A planted bomb caused a blast that killed at least 18 people traveling in a passenger van in northwest Pakistan Monday, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[13432,14411,636,14412,3775,14410],"class_list":["post-10832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-blast","tag-district-of-hangu","tag-pakistan","tag-shia-passengers","tag-suicide-bomber","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}