{"id":52701,"date":"2023-02-18T04:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/armed-militants-storm-police-headquarters-karachi-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T03:31:43","slug":"at-least-three-killed-as-pakistani-taliban-militants-storm-police-hq-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52701","title":{"rendered":"At least four killed as Pakistani Taliban militants storm police HQ in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say three attackers also dead as police and paramilitary forces clear building in gun battle<\/p>\n<p>Militants launched a deadly suicide attack on the police headquarters of Pakistan\u2019s largest city on Friday, with the sound of gunfire and explosions rocking the heart of Karachi for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers, a ranger and a civilian were killed and 14 others wounded, said Murtaza Wahab, a government spokesman in Sindh province, where Karachi is located. Two suicide bombers were killed and at least one blew himself up after entering the police building, officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/armed-militants-storm-police-headquarters-karachi-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say three attackers also dead as police and paramilitary forces clear building in gun battleMilitants launched a deadly suicide attack on the police headquarters of Pakistan\u2019s largest city on Friday, with the sound of gunfire and explosions r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3581,"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-52701","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\/52701","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\/3581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52722,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701\/revisions\/52722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}