{"id":1575,"date":"2011-05-20T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2011-05-20T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:37:35","slug":"pakistan-blast-strikes-us-consulate-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/05\/20\/1575\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan blast strikes US consulate convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"car_usa\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/car_usa.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"257\" \/>At least one person has been killed and 10 others wounded after an attack on two US consulate vehicles in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani police said a roadside bomb struck two vehicles carrying foreigners on Friday, killing a Pakistani passer-by.<br \/>The US embassy later confirmed that two of its consulate vehicles had been targeted, and that one of them was badly damaged.<br \/>&#8220;Two vehicles of the US consulate were on their way to the consulate when they were attacked,&#8221; US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said.<br \/>&#8220;One vehicle was damaged. There is no death among our personnel and there are no serious injuries,&#8221; he added.<br \/>&#8220;Only one car was hit. In that car there were US citizen diplomats and a Pakistani driver.&#8221;<br \/>Ijaz Khan, a police superintendent, told the Reuters news agency that two American security guards were slightly wounded, and were being treated at a US medical facility.<br \/>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Kamal Hyder, reporting from the capital, Islamabad, said, &#8220;Because the vehicle was bomb proof, none of the people in the vehicle was killed.&#8221;<br \/>Liaqat Ali, Peshawar police chief, said a local man riding on a motorbike was killed in the blast, which took place on a main road in the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Revenge killing&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The device was so powerful that it smashed glass up to several hundred metres away and damaged at least three buildings, our correspondent reported.<br \/>The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.<br \/>&#8220;The diplomatic staff of all NATO countries are our targets,&#8221; Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Taliban spokesman, told Reuters via telephone from an undisclosed location.<br \/>&#8220;We will continue such attacks. Pakistan is our first target, and America is our second.&#8221;<br \/>Our correspondent said the claim of responsibility appeared to be &#8220;a case of revenge for the Osama bin Laden killing&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;Al Jazeera had obtained an exclusive video a couple of days ago in which the Taliban warned of retaliation,&#8221; Hyder said.<br \/>Pakistan has witnessed a jump in violence since al-Qaeda and its Pakistani Taliban allies threatened to avenge the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden in the country.<br \/>The Taliban also claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing last week that killed at least 76 people, most of them paramilitary recruits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person has been killed and 10 others wounded after an attack on two US consulate vehicles in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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