{"id":57086,"date":"2025-11-11T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=57086"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:03:13","slug":"casualties-reported-after-blast-outside-islamabad-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/casualties-reported-after-blast-outside-islamabad-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Casualties Reported after Blast Outside Islamabad Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion outside district court buildings in a residential area of the Pakistani capital caused an unconfirmed number of casualties on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I parked my car and entered the complex&#8230; I heard a loud bang at the gate,&#8221; lawyer Rustam Malik said after the blast, which sent people fleeing and damaged vehicles in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was complete chaos, lawyers and people were running inside the complex. I saw two dead bodies lying on the gate and several cars were on fire,&#8221; said Malik, one of the witnesses who spoke to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear and there was no official confirmation of casualty numbers.<\/p>\n<p>A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, told AFP that 12 bodies and 20 wounded people had been taken to a nearby government-run hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Shahzad Butt, another lawyer, said the blast occurred around 12:30 pm (0730 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a massive blast. Everyone started running inside out of panic. I have seen at least five dead bodies lying at the front gate,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramilitary troops cordoned off the area, which houses several government offices, including the administrative commissioner and deputy commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion outside district court buildings in a residential area of the Pakistani capital caused an unconfirmed number of casualties on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP. &#8220;As I parked my car and entered the complex&#8230; I heard a loud bang at the gate,&#8221; lawyer Rustam Malik said after the blast, which sent people fleeing and damaged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57088,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57086\/revisions\/57088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}