{"id":314322,"date":"2019-07-30T05:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T05:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314322"},"modified":"2019-07-30T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:27:14","slug":"pakistani-army-plane-crashes-into-residential-area-17-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistani-army-plane-crashes-into-residential-area-17-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani army plane crashes into residential area, 17 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314323 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pak-plane-crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Pak-plane-crash.jpg 582w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Pak-plane-crash-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Pak-plane-crash-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Pak-plane-crash-571x420.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 17 people, including two pilots, three military personnel and 12 civilians were killed when a Pakistan military aircraft on a routine training flight crashed in a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi early on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plane crashed in the suburbs of Mora Kalu village, killing all five crew members, 12 civilians and destroying few houses, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, 12 civilians were also injured in the crash which set off a fire in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after the crash, a major fire broke out that engulfed numerous houses in the locality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rescuers and troops quickly reached the area and began the rescue operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dead and injured were shifted to the hospital of Rawalpindi, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind the incident is yet to be ascertained.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people, including two pilots, three military personnel and 12 civilians were killed when a Pakistan military aircraft on a routine training flight crashed in a residential area near the garrison city of Rawalpindi early on Tuesday. The plane crashed in the suburbs of Mora Kalu village, killing all five crew members, 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[48,3614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314322"}],"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=314322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314324,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314322\/revisions\/314324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}