{"id":1038,"date":"2014-06-08T22:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2014-06-08T22:54:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:54:14","slug":"karachi-airport-attacked-by-gunmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/karachi-airport-attacked-by-gunmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi Airport Attacked By Gunmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"73%\" height=\"\" class=\"aligntop size-full wp-image-1039\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) \u2014 Gunmen stormed an airport terminal used for VIPs and cargo in Pakistan&#8217;s largest city Sunday night, killing five people and wounding another, officials said, striking blow to a city vital to the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The attack still was ongoing early Monday in Karachi, a sprawling port city on the southern coast of Pakistan. Gunfire could be heard coming from the terminal at Jinnah International Airport as authorities scrambled to secure the area.<\/p>\n<p>Five bodies were brought from the airport to Jinnah Hospital, along with one person who had been wounded, said Dr. Seemi Jamali at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen attacked the terminal late Sunday, said Shaukat Jamal, a spokesman for the Airport Security Force. Pakistani television stations aired footage of what appeared to be a major fire at the airport, with the silhouette of a jet seen.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal said the Pakistani military has been called in and that police were fighting the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened at a terminal not generally used for commercial flights but for special VIP flights and for cargo.<\/p>\n<p>Sarmad Hussain, an official with the state-run Pakistan International Airlines, said three of the dead were from the security force tasked with protecting the airport and the other two were from PIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) \u2014 Gunmen stormed an airport terminal used for VIPs and cargo in Pakistan&#8217;s largest city Sunday night, killing five people and wounding another, officials said, striking blow to a city vital to the country&#8217;s economy. The attack still was ongoing early Monday in Karachi, a sprawling port city on the southern coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-world","tag-karachi-airport-attacked-by-gunmen"],"views":722,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}