{"id":31226,"date":"2021-04-22T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/four-killed-in-bomb-explosion-at-pakistan-hotel-hosting-chinese-ambassador"},"modified":"2021-04-22T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T11:44:27","slug":"four-killed-in-bomb-at-pakistan-hotel-hosting-chinese-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31226","title":{"rendered":"China condemns bombing of Pakistan hotel hosting ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing backs government \u2018anti-terror\u2019 efforts as Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb <\/p>\n<p>A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned Wednesday\u2019s powerful car bomb explosion at a hotel where the Chinese ambassador is understood to be staying in Quetta in south-west Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>At least five people were killed and 12 injured in the attack. A spokesman, Wang Wenbin, said the Chinese ambassador and his team were not in the hotel when the blast happened, and that no Chinese citizens were hurt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/four-killed-in-bomb-explosion-at-pakistan-hotel-hosting-chinese-ambassador\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing backs government \u2018anti-terror\u2019 efforts as Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned Wednesday\u2019s powerful car bomb explosion at a hotel where the Chinese ambassador is understood to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[412,50,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31226\/revisions\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}