{"id":187,"date":"2009-12-07T18:45:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:45:19","slug":"bomb-blasts-hit-market-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blasts hit market in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2tuEhPLqMds<br \/>\n<strong>Two bomb blasts have ripped through a busy market in the centre of Pakistan&#8217;s second largest city, Lahore, killing at least 30 people, police and medics say.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe attack, which injured some 100 people, sparked a huge blaze at the city&#8217;s Moon Market at 2045 local time.<br \/>\nThe toll may rise further as fire-fighters battle to control the blaze.<br \/>\nThe blasts came just hours after a suicide bomber on a rickshaw killed at least 10 people in Peshawar when he blew himself up near the courthouse.<br \/>\nIn Lahore, emergency vehicles and police officers are at the scene of the blast, where television pictures showed smoke rising and cars burning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Market blaze<\/strong><br \/>\nOne official said the blasts happened in quick succession and that dozens were injured when the blast struck the market, crammed with shoppers and traders.<br \/>\n&#8220;The fire engulfed a building and shops. There were two blasts with an interval of about 30 seconds,&#8221; senior city police official Shafiq Ahmad told French news agency AFP.<br \/>\n&#8220;One was in front of a bank and one was in front of a police station.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe two buildings targeted were about 30m apart &#8211; one on the edge of the market and the other at its centre.<br \/>\nThe BBC&#8217;s Aleem Maqbool, in Islamabad, says eyewitnesses say that much of the market remains inaccessible.<br \/>\nPunjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the bombs were apparently remote-controlled devices, AP reports.<br \/>\nMore than 400 people have been killed during a string of attacks mounted by Islamist militants in recent weeks, as an army offensive targeting the Taliban stronghold in the country&#8217;s north-west continues.<br \/>\nClose to the country&#8217;s border with India, Lahore has been hit several times by militants over the past year.<br \/>\nEarlier in the day, a suicide bomber detonated about 6kg (13lb) of explosives outside a courthouse in the north-western city of Peshawar.<br \/>\nThe attack killed 10 people &#8211; including a policeman &#8211; and wounded 44 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2tuEhPLqMds Two bomb blasts have ripped through a busy market in the centre of Pakistan&#8217;s second largest city, Lahore, killing at least 30 people, police and medics say. The attack, which injured some 100 people, sparked a huge blaze at the city&#8217;s Moon Market at 2045 local time. The toll may rise further as fire-fighters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}