{"id":11902,"date":"2024-11-09T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2024-11-09T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T08:39:28","slug":"at-least-17-killed-in-pakistan-railway-station-blast-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-17-killed-in-pakistan-railway-station-blast-police\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 killed in Pakistan railway station blast: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>An explosion Saturday at a railway station in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens more, police and medics said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll has reached 17. It might possibly go higher,&#8221; Inspector General Moazzam Jah Ansari told AFP. Another 46 wounded in the blast at the Quetta railway station have been transported to a local hospital, according to its spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion happened as passengers waited on a platform at around 8:45 am (0345 GMT) in the capital of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.<br \/>\nPakistan&#8217;s largest and poorest province, resource-rich Balochistan is home to separatist militants.<\/p>\n<p>Militants have in the past targeted energy projects with foreign financing &#8212; most notably from China &#8212; accusing outsiders of exploiting the region while excluding residents from the profits.<\/p>\n<p>One of the militant groups &#8212; the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) &#8212; frequently claims deadly attacks against security forces or Pakistanis from other provinces, notably Punjabis.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the BLA claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks by dozens of assailants who killed at least 39 people, one of the highest tolls to hit the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion Saturday at a railway station in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens more, police and medics said. &#8220;The death toll has reached 17. It might possibly go higher,&#8221; Inspector General Moazzam Jah Ansari told AFP. Another 46 wounded in the blast at the Quetta railway station have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11904,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions\/11904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}