{"id":6014,"date":"2016-10-26T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T07:42:55","slug":"timeline-of-deadly-attacks-in-quetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/studykit\/currentaffairs\/daily-articles\/timeline-of-deadly-attacks-in-quetta\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of deadly attacks in Quetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>September 3, 2010<\/strong>: A suicide bomb attack killed 59 people at a rally held by Shia organisations on Al Quds day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>August 31, 2011:<\/strong> A powerful blast killed at least 11 and injured 13 others when a bomb was detonated on Gulistan Road in the Murriabad area of Quetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>September 20, 2011:<\/strong> Militants gunned down 26 people belonging to the Shia Hazara community while they were travelling in a bus near Quetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>June 28, 2012:<\/strong> Fourteen people, including two policemen and a woman, were killed and many others were injured in a suicide attack on a bus carrying pilgrims returning from Iran. The suicide bomber was in a private car which hit the bus in the Hazar Ganji area of Quetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October 2012:<\/strong> Four Hazara men were shot dead in an attack on a scrap shop. Men on motorcycles opened fire on the shop in Kabari Market on Sirki Road and fled after killing Ata Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim, Ghulam Ali and Syed Awiz.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dec 28, 2013:<\/strong> A suicide blast at the funeral of a slain police officer in Quetta killed 30 members of the police force, including a DIG and SP, and 60 others injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>January 10, 2013:<\/strong> A double suicide attack on a snooker club killed 92 in an Quetta locality populated by Shia Hazaras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>February 16, 2013:<\/strong> A bomb blast at a market in Quetta`s Hazara Town, a Shia neighbourhood, left 89 people dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>November 12, 2014:<\/strong> At least five people were killedand two others were injured in a firing incident in Quetta October 19, 2015: An explosion occurred on a bus terminal located on Quetta`s Saryab Road, killing at least 11 people and injuring many more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>January 14, 2016:<\/strong> At least 15 people, among them 13 police personnel and a soldier of the Frontier Corps, were killed while 25 others were injured when a suicide bomber struck the city`s Satellite Town area. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and another proscribed group, Jaishul Islam, claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>January 19, 2016:<\/strong> Six personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and another was injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in the coal-mining area of Margat in Bolan district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>February 7, 2016:<\/strong> A suicide attack targeted a security forces` vehicle near the premises of the heavily guarded Quetta district courts which killed nine and injured 34.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>May 3, 2016:<\/strong> Five policemen were injured in an IED blast in Quetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>August 9, 2016:<\/strong> A suicide bomber targeted the emergency services ward of Quetta`s Civil Hospital, killing at least 70 lawyers and leaving dozens injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>October 5, 2016:<\/strong> At least four women belonging to the Hazara Shia community were killed while one was injured when assailants opened fire on a bus on Kirani Road near Pud Gali Chowk in Quetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Compiled by <strong>Muzammal Afzal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Daily Dawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3, 2010: A suicide bomb attack killed 59 people at a rally held by Shia organisations on Al Quds day. August 31, 2011: A powerful blast killed at least 11 and injured 13 others when a bomb was detonated on Gulistan Road in the Murriabad area of Quetta. September 20, 2011: Militants gunned down &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5285],"tags":[5847,5846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}