{"id":42184,"date":"2022-03-05T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/04\/dozens-of-worshippers-killed-in-pakistan-suicide-bomb-attack-peshawar"},"modified":"2022-03-05T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:21:12","slug":"dozens-of-worshippers-killed-in-pakistan-suicide-bomb-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42184","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of worshippers killed in Pakistan suicide bomb attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 56 people die in attack on Shia Muslim mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayers<\/p>\n<p>A suicide bomber has struck inside a Shia Muslim mosque in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s north-western city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State group claimed the attack and threatened more violence against Pakistan\u2019s Shia minority. Both IS and the Pakistani Taliban \u2013 a militant group separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan \u2013 have carried out similar attacks in the past in the area, located near the border with neighbouring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/04\/dozens-of-worshippers-killed-in-pakistan-suicide-bomb-attack-peshawar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 56 people die in attack on Shia Muslim mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayersA suicide bomber has struck inside a Shia Muslim mosque in Pakistan\u2019s north-western city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and woun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1946,"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":[60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42184","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\/1946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42185,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42184\/revisions\/42185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}