{"id":3890,"date":"2010-02-12T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:04:55","slug":"pakistan-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan confirms twin suicide bombings killed 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pakistan-bombing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3891\" title=\"Pakistan confirms twin suicide bombings killed 14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pakistan-bombing-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan confirms twin suicide bombings killed 14\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pakistan-bombing-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pakistan-bombing-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/pakistan-bombing.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Twin suicide bombings minutes apart killed nine police and five civilians, in a bloody assault on Pakistani police in a northwestern town, officials confirmed Friday, a day after the attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first bomber blew himself outside a police training centre in Bannu. Eight minutes later, another detonated as a patrol headed by local police chief Iqbal Marwat arrived at the entrance, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Bannu and the rest of North West Frontier Province is a flashpoint for Islamist militants attacking security personnel and civilians in the nuclear-armed country on the front line of the US-led war against Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll is 14. Nine policemen and five civilians were killed,&#8221; local administration chief Abdul Jabbar Shah told.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found only the legs of the two suicide bombers who blew themselves eight minutes apart, &#8221; Shah said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first bomber struck at the checkpoint at the entrance, while the second bomber blew himself up as the district police chief arrived,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>A curfew had been imposed in the town, where police, paramilitary troops and army soldiers were patrolling the streets, Shah said.<\/p>\n<p>Police official Niaz Ahmed confirmed that the attacks killed 14 people and wounded more than 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin suicide bombings minutes apart killed nine police and five civilians, in a bloody assault on Pakistani police in a northwestern town, officials confirmed Friday, a day after the attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118],"tags":[4959,4960,636,2721,4956],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-niaz-ahmed","tag-north-west-frontier","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-bombing","tag-police-official-niaz-ahmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}