{"id":8002,"date":"2024-11-22T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/at-least-42-killed-in-terrorist-attack-in-pakistans-khyber\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:08:50","slug":"at-least-42-killed-in-terrorist-attack-in-pakistans-khyber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/at-least-42-killed-in-terrorist-attack-in-pakistans-khyber\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 42 killed in terrorist attack in Pakistan\u2019s Khyber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5258396.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Women and children were among the fatalities in the attacks in the Kurram tribal district on Thursday, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sectarian violence has escalated since July in Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan, between Shia and Sunni tribes over land disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen opened fire on two separate convoys of Shia pilgrims travelling with police escorts in Kurram. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Javedullah Mehsud, the deputy commissioner of Kurram, said the attacks took place when the convoys were on their way from the district headquarters of Parachinar to Peshawar.<\/p>\n<p>Mehsud told Al Jazeera on Friday that all the bodies had been recovered and burials would be conducted later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/224758\/At-least-42-killed-in-terrorist-attack-in-Pakistan-s-Khyber\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and children were among the fatalities in the attacks in the Kurram tribal district on Thursday, police said on Friday. Sectarian violence has escalated since July in Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan, between Shia and Sunni tribes over land disputes. Gunmen opened fire on two separate convoys of Shia pilgrims travelling with police escorts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}