{"id":67207,"date":"2024-10-12T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T02:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/12\/armed-attackers-storm-pakistan-coal-mines-killing-at-least-21"},"modified":"2024-10-12T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T02:43:29","slug":"armed-attackers-storm-pakistan-coal-mines-killing-at-least-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67207","title":{"rendered":"Armed attackers storm Pakistan coal mines, killing at least 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 assailants fired rockets and hurled grenades at mines and miners\u2019 quarters in country\u2019s south-west, days before regional summit in Islamabad<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of attackers armed with guns, rockets and hand grenades have stormed a cluster of private coalmines in south-western Pakistan on Friday, shooting some miners in their sleep and others after lining them up, killing at least 21, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack by about 40 armed men days before Pakistan hosts a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation grouping is the worst in weeks in the restive, mineral-rich province of Balochistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/12\/armed-attackers-storm-pakistan-coal-mines-killing-at-least-21\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 assailants fired rockets and hurled grenades at mines and miners\u2019 quarters in country\u2019s south-west, days before regional summit in IslamabadDozens of attackers armed with guns, rockets and hand grenades have stormed a cluster of private coalmi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4438,"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":[589,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67207","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\/4438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67208,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67207\/revisions\/67208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}