{"id":327993,"date":"2020-10-27T05:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327993"},"modified":"2020-10-27T05:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:43:26","slug":"pakistan-blast-at-seminary-in-peshawar-kills-at-least-7-injures-70-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-blast-at-seminary-in-peshawar-kills-at-least-7-injures-70-including-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Blast at seminary in Peshawar kills at least 7, injures 70 including children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-blast-at-seminary-in-peshawar-kills-at-least-7-injures-70-including-children\/peshawar-blast\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327994\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/peshawar-blast-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/peshawar-blast-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/peshawar-blast-395x420.jpg 395w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/peshawar-blast.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>At least seven people were killed and more than 70 were injured on Tuesday in a powerful explosion that ripped through an Islamic seminary in Pakistan&#8217;s Peshawar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The blast happened while a cleric was delivering a lecture at the seminary in Dir Colony. The cause of the blast is not yet known but initial reports suggest an improvised explosive device (IED) was used in the explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to reports, the explosion went off minutes after someone left a bag at the madrasa.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, the area has been cordoned off and police teams are collecting evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people were killed and more than 70 were injured on Tuesday in a powerful explosion that ripped through an Islamic seminary in Pakistan&#8217;s Peshawar. The blast happened while a cleric was delivering a lecture at the seminary in Dir Colony. The cause of the blast is not yet known but initial reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3604,48,13622,13623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327996,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327993\/revisions\/327996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}