{"id":728,"date":"2009-11-14T06:56:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-11-14T06:59:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:59:40","slug":"pakistan-car-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-car-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan car bomber kills five people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pakistan-car-bomber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-729\" title=\"Pakistan car bomber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pakistan-car-bomber.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan car bomber\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>A suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing at least five people, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports put the death toll at seven with at least 25 others injured.<\/p>\n<p>Local media said a car laden with explosives had been driven into the checkpoint in the Pushta Khara area.<\/p>\n<p>Government official Sahibzada Muhammad Anis said the car exploded as police went to search it, AP news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed a large cloud of smoke and the wreckage of cars.<\/p>\n<p>Peshawar has been regularly targeted by militants in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A car bombing on Friday on intelligence agency offices in the city killed at least 12 people and injured 40.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago more than 100 people were killed in a blast at a market.<\/p>\n<p>Bomb attacks have dramatically increased across Pakistan as the army continues an offensive against Taliban militants in the South Waziristan region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing at least five people, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63],"tags":[1327,636,1326,1323,1329,1328,648,1330],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","tag-car-bomber","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-bomber","tag-pakistan-car-bomber","tag-sahibzada-muhammad","tag-sahibzada-muhammad-anis","tag-south-waziristan","tag-taliban-militants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}