{"id":65401,"date":"2026-09-19T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=65401"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:09:00","slug":"death-toll-from-attack-at-police-hq-in-pakistan-rises-to-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/09\/19\/death-toll-from-attack-at-police-hq-in-pakistan-rises-to-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from attack at police HQ in Pakistan rises to 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The death toll from an explosion and gun attack at a police headquarters in northern Pakistan has risen to at least 31, according to local officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At least 31 people, including 16 police personnel, have been killed and more than 100 injured so far in the militant attack,&#8221; the official said, adding that fighting was ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attackers stormed the Old Police Lines complex at Kohat, a town of around 220,000 people in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attackers rammed a car carrying explosives into the police facility as officers and their families were praying in a mosque, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local militant group Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, a faction linked to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from an explosion and gun attack at a police headquarters in northern Pakistan has risen to at least 31, according to local officials. &#8220;At least 31 people, including 16 police personnel, have been killed and more than 100 injured so far in the militant attack,&#8221; the official said, adding that fighting was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65403,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65401\/revisions\/65403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}