{"id":312062,"date":"2019-05-08T06:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312062"},"modified":"2019-05-08T06:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:21:36","slug":"pakistan-blast-outside-sufi-shrine-in-lahore-claims-8-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-blast-outside-sufi-shrine-in-lahore-claims-8-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Blast outside Sufi shrine in Lahore claims 8 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311272 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/police-line-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/police-line-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/police-line-696x396.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/police-line.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least eight people were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast outside the\u00a0Data Darbar shrine in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the blast targeted a van carrying the Elite Force of Punjab Police. However, the nature of the explosion is yet to be ascertained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rescue teams were rushed to the site of blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe blast took place outside Gate number 2, where the police personnel were deployed for security,\u201d said sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Data Darbar,\u00a0one of the largest Sufi shrines has been targeted previously, in a 2010 suicide attack that killed over 40 people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight people were killed and several others injured in a suicide blast outside the\u00a0Data Darbar shrine in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday morning, authorities said. According to the reports, the blast targeted a van carrying the Elite Force of Punjab Police. However, the nature of the explosion is yet to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[845,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312062"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312063,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312062\/revisions\/312063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}