{"id":44265,"date":"2014-10-02T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=44265"},"modified":"2014-10-03T04:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T23:26:34","slug":"gilgit-explosion-haramosh-bound-passenger-van-leaves-3-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2014\/10\/02\/gilgit-explosion-haramosh-bound-passenger-van-leaves-3-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgit: Explosion near Haramosh bound passenger van leaves 3 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van blast not an act of terrorism, DC Gilgit tells media (Click to open link)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With reporting by Farman Karim Baig & others [Last updated at 12:45]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gilgit, October 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Explosion near\u00a0a passenger van moving\u00a0towards Haramosh Valley has led to the death of at least three people, while nine\u00a0people, including four women, have reportedly been injured. The vehicle exploded and caught fire near Alam Bridge, located almost 60km South\u00a0of Gilgit city, close to Jaglote town.<\/p>\n

The injured and dead were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, where a medical emergency has been imposed to provide optimum care and facilities to the victims and survivors.<\/p>\n

An eye-witness named Mir Masoom Shah, who was at the DHQ hospital Gilgit, told Pamir Times<\/em>\u00a0correspondent that a\u00a0bomb had been\u00a0planted on the road-side near a culvert. The eye-witness also said that there were at least 25 people in the van when it was hit by the ‘road-side’ bomb. This information could not be verified from official sources.<\/p>\n

Police sources have told\u00a0Pamir Times\u00a0<\/em>that the nature of the blast is being investigated from all angles. There are reports that a 3 feet deep crater has been created at the blast site.<\/p>\n

Some of the deceased and injured\u00a0have been identified as Aqeel\u00a0Shah \u00a0s\/o Sultan Shah, Mushtaq Hussain s\/o Ali Madad and Syed Sabir s\/o Baba Jan.\u00a0The injured have been identified as Huda, Tahayya, Isha, Madiha, Zainab, Shama and Imrana.<\/p>\n

The National Counter Terrorism Authority, through letter number 876 had informed the Home Dept of Gilgit-Baltistan regarding the terror threat yesterday. Reports to this effect had also been published in regional newspaper.<\/p>\n

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Van blast not an act of terrorism, DC Gilgit tells media (Click to open link)\u00a0 ========== With reporting by Farman Karim Baig & others [Last updated at 12:45] Gilgit, October 2:\u00a0Explosion near\u00a0a passenger van moving\u00a0towards Haramosh Valley has led to the death of at least three people, while nine\u00a0people, including four women, have reportedly been …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"better_featured_image":{"id":44273,"alt_text":"","caption":"A young survivor is being treated at the DHQ Gilgit. Photo: Farman Karim ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1048,"height":786,"file":"2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-600x449.jpg","width":600,"height":449,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg?fit=600%2C449&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-120x85.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0}},"post":44265,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Haramosh-Van-Blast-2.jpg?fit=1048%2C786&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44265"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44299,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44265\/revisions\/44299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}