{"id":7867,"date":"2019-07-31T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7867-blast-in-pakistani-city-quetta-kills-five\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:08:16","slug":"blast-in-pakistani-city-quetta-kills-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7867-blast-in-pakistani-city-quetta-kills-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast in Pakistani city Quetta kills five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Five people including two policemen were killed and 27 injured in a blast near a police station in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday (Jul 30) evening, a week after a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five people including two policemen were killed and 27 injured in a blast near a police station in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday (Jul 30) evening, a week after a similar blast that killed two people, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An explosive-rigged motorcycle was detonated to target a police van parked outside the police station in the heart of Quetta\u2019s busy shopping area, the city police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive people have been killed, including two policemen,\u201d Abdul Razzaq Cheema, Quetta police chief told Reuters. Two women and a child are among the 27 injured in the blast, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar blast last Tuesday two people were killed and 16 were injured when an explosive-rigged motorcycle went off outside a store in Quetta.<\/p>\n<p>Violence in the Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has fuelled concern about the security of investments, in particular an energy link planned to run from western China to Pakistan\u2019s southern port of Gwadar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people including two policemen were killed and 27 injured in a blast near a police station in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Tuesday (Jul 30) evening, a week after a\u00a0 Five people including two policemen were killed and 27 injured in a blast near a police station in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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