{"id":1460,"date":"2015-05-13T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2015-05-13T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:58:22","slug":"militant-attack-leaves-47-shia-pilgrims-dead-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/militant-attack-leaves-47-shia-pilgrims-dead-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Militant attack leaves 47 Shia pilgrims dead in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 47 people have been killed and tens of others wounded after unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan&#8217;s southern province of Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>At least 47 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in an attack during which unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan\u2019s southern province of Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>A senior police official, requesting anonymity, said the incident took place in the Safoora Chowk area of Karachi, located 1,146 kilometers (712 miles) east of the capital, Islamabad, on Wednesday, when a group of around eight assailants stopped the bus and opened indiscriminate fire on passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Medical sources, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said among the victims were 25 men and 16 women.<\/p>\n<p>Television networks on Tuesday carried pictures of a bullet-riddled pink bus.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the injured victims succumbed to their wounds while en route to hospital. Some of the wounded people are reportedly in a critical condition, and the death toll is expected to rise, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 47 people have been killed and tens of others wounded after unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan&#8217;s southern province of Sindh. At least 47 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in an attack during which unidentified armed men launched an attack on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asia-and-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}