{"id":22996,"date":"2024-01-17T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22996"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T07:52:59","slug":"quetta-blast-9-injured-including-4-children-and-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/quetta-blast-9-injured-including-4-children-and-a-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Quetta blast: 9 injured, including 4 children and a police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion happened on Zarghoon Road in Quetta, close to the Commissioner Office and Civil Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>QUETTA: A locally manufactured explosive device exploded close to the Civil Secretariat and Commissioner Office on Quetta&#8217;s Zarghoon Road, injuring at least nine people, including a traffic policeman and four children, according to police and government authorities on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the senior superintendent of operations, the explosion happened in a trash dump beneath a bridge on Zarghoon Road. He continued by saying that more inquiries into the explosion are being conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/awam-express-bomb-threat-was-thwarted.html\">Awam Express bomb threat was thwarted<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The four kids hurt in the explosion were ragpickers, the SSP revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Quetta Division Commissioner Muhammad Hamza Shafqaat encouraged people to stay off Zarghoon Road for the next few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Even after making unmatched sacrifices in the fight against terrorism, Pakistan has seen an increase in terror incidents in 2023, and banned organizations are still operating there.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, militant assaults have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and members of the military services; August proved to be the deadliest month, with 99 strikes and 112 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lakki-marwat-martyrs-laid-to-rest.html\">Lakki Marwat martyrs laid to rest<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top brass of the armed forces also voiced concerns at the most recent Corps Commander Conference regarding the terrorists&#8217; access to the newest weapons and their ability to operate freely in a neighboring country as members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and other similar groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion happened on Zarghoon Road in Quetta, close to the Commissioner Office and Civil Secretariat. QUETTA: A locally manufactured explosive device exploded close to the Civil Secretariat and Commissioner Office on Quetta&#8217;s Zarghoon Road, injuring at least nine people, including a traffic policeman and four children, according to police and government authorities on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,9,21,2],"tags":[10784,10782,10783],"class_list":["post-22996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-hamza-shafqaat","tag-quetta-blast","tag-zarghoon-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}