{"id":300367,"date":"2018-07-14T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300367"},"modified":"2018-07-14T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:45:44","slug":"death-toll-mounts-to-130-in-pakistan-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-mounts-to-130-in-pakistan-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll mounts to 130 in Pakistan bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 24pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300368 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pakistan-bombing-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pakistan-bombing-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pakistan-bombing-696x398.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pakistan-bombing.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 130 people were killed and more than 300 injured in two separate bombings, targeting political rallies in Pakistan on Friday. This incident has created security fears ahead of the general elections on July 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A suicide bomber exploded in the middle of a gathering of the Balochistan Awami Party in Mastung town, killing at least 128 people, including party leader Siraj Raisani, and injuring more than 250 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Officials, 20kg of explosives and ball bearings were used in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After few hours another attack came into light when 20 people got killed and several injured due to the hidden bomb in a motorcycle went off near a rally which was organised by Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) candidate Akram Khan Durrani at Bannu in northwestern Khyber-Paktunkhwala province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However Durrani survived the attack and said he would continue his campaign despite threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ISIS and the\u00a0Pakistani Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Mamnoon Hussain and prime minister Nasirul Mulk also condemned the attack in separate statements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 130 people were killed and more than 300 injured in two separate bombings, targeting political rallies in Pakistan on Friday. This incident has created security fears ahead of the general elections on July 25. A suicide bomber exploded in the middle of a gathering of the Balochistan Awami Party in Mastung town, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3626,3623,891,3629,3627,3628,48,3625,3624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300371,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300367\/revisions\/300371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}