{"id":5545,"date":"2026-09-18T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:40:55","slug":"explosive-vehicle-attack-on-pakistan-mosque-kills-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/explosive-vehicle-attack-on-pakistan-mosque-kills-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive vehicle attack on Pakistan mosque kills 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in Pakistan\u2019s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a senior police official in Peshawar.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack took place in Kohat district, where a gun battle between the attackers and security forces was still underway, the official said.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the attackers has reportedly been killed, while security personnel and rescue teams continue operations at the site.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rescue operation is also underway as authorities respond to the blast and ongoing security situation.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his condolences and conveyed his wishes for the swift recovery of those injured in the explosion.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities have not yet provided further details on the identity of the attackers or claimed responsibility for the incident.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in Pakistan\u2019s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a senior police official in Peshawar. The attack took place in Kohat district, where a gun battle between the attackers and security forces was still underway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}