{"id":1953,"date":"2019-10-31T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2019-10-31T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:12:02","slug":"fire-in-train-leaves-62-dead-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2019\/10\/31\/fire-in-train-leaves-62-dead-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"73 dead in Pakistan train fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 73 passengers died when a train travelling from the Pakistani city of Karachi to Rawalpindi caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for railways, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the fire was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder being used by passengers cooking breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze is thought to have spread to at least three carriages.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials cited in local media, many of the victims died as they tried to jump off the burning train.<\/p>\n<p>Another 40 people have been injured. Officials say the number of dead may still rise.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened near the town of Rahim Yar Khan in the south of Punjab province. Many passengers were pilgrims heading to Raiwind near Lahore for one of Pakistan&#8217;s largest annual religious congregations, organised by the Tablighi Jamaat Sunni Muslim missionary movement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 73 passengers died when a train travelling from the Pakistani city of Karachi to Rawalpindi caught fire. Minister for railways, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the fire was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder being used by passengers cooking breakfast. The blaze is thought to have spread to at least three carriages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}