{"id":53325,"date":"2014-08-19T09:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T06:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=53325"},"modified":"2014-08-19T09:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T06:27:37","slug":"3-female-teachers-2-children-killed-as-school-van-blown-up-in-pakistan-53325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/3-female-teachers-2-children-killed-as-school-van-blown-up-in-pakistan-53325\/","title":{"rendered":"3 female teachers, 2 children killed as school van blown up in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53326\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-53326 \" alt=\"Vehicle on fire after blast in Pakistan. File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Blast-Pakistan-Nationalturk-19.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Blast-Pakistan-Nationalturk-19.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Blast-Pakistan-Nationalturk-19-280x199.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vehicle on fire after blast in Pakistan. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Militants blew up a school van in Pakistan, killing six people including three female teachers and two children.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Aug 19\/Nationalturk \u2013 Amidst political turmoil in the country, militants on Tuesday blew up a school van in Pakistan\u2019s Bajaur tribal agency, killing six people including three female teachers and two children.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials said explosive device (probably remote controlled) planted along a roadside in Tangi area of Salarzai tehsil in Bajaour tribal agency exploded this morning when a school van was passing through the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe explosive device went off with a big bang and the deafening sound of the blast was heard in the adjoining areas also. The school van was completed damaged in the blast,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Official said six persons travelling the school van were killed. Among the dead included three female teachers, two children and driver of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby was also injured in the explosion and has been hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately, after the blast, police, security men and rescue team reached the spot and shifted the dead to hospital for conducting of post-mortem and other legal formalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe security men have laid siege around the area and were conducting searches to look for the militants responsible for the blast,\u201d security officials said.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Blast could be handiwork of TTP\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Although no militant outfit has claimed responsibility of the attack, security officials believe that it would be handiwork of any of the groups part of terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan military launched operation against local and foreign terrorists in country\u2019s North Waziristan tribal agency on June 15 this year. The operation is going on and according to Pakistan army, over 600 terrorists have been killed and large cache of arms and ammunition seized. However, there are reports that terrorists had fled the area before launching of military operation by Pakistan army.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<strong>\/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants blew up a school van in Pakistan, killing six people including three female teachers and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[72531,48849,49005,46057,57143,48847,72532,10265,647,636,29451,72109,72533,72535,63368,72534,43131,60517,42251],"class_list":["post-53325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-bajaur-tribal-agency","tag-big-bang","tag-blew-up","tag-deafening-sound","tag-exploded","tag-explosive-device","tag-female-teachers","tag-militants","tag-north-waziristan","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-army","tag-political-turmoil","tag-remote-controlled","tag-salarzai-tehsil","tag-school-van","tag-tangi-area","tag-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-terrorist-group","tag-ttp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}