{"id":25610,"date":"2022-04-26T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:12:29","slug":"blast-at-university-of-karachi-claims-4-lives-including-3-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/25610","title":{"rendered":"Blast at University Of Karachi, claims 4 lives including 3 Chinese."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi,<\/p>\n<p>Explosion occurred in the premises of University of Karachi claim lives of four people including three Chinese nationals, while four other sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), it was a suicide blast and was carried out by a burqa-clad woman.<\/p>\n<p>According to CCTV footage, explosion occurred at 1:52pm in a van near the Confucius Institute a Chinese language teaching center at University of Karachi. Following the blast, rescue and security agencies rushed to the blast site and cordoned off the areas and launch rescue operations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-25610-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CCTV-KU-Blast.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CCTV-KU-Blast.mp4\">https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CCTV-KU-Blast.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deceased Chinese nationals have been identified as the director of the\u00a0Confucius Institute Huang Guiping, Ding Mupeng, Chen Sai, and their Pakistani driver, Khalid.<\/p>\n<p>According to Police sources the van entered the University of Karachi from the Maskan gate of the university.<\/p>\n<p>Two injured have been identified as Chinese national Wang Yuqing and a security guard named Hamid. All of them were hospitalized and under treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the bodies of the deceased have been shifted to Karachi&#8217;s Jinnah Hospital for an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was initially reported to have been caused by a gas cylinder. However, the police later said the blast could have been a suicide attack. Sources further added that the victims were returning to the Confucius Institute from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA).<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Primer Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif expressed grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am deeply grieved on the loss of precious lives including of our Chinese friends in the heinous attack in Karachi today. My heartfelt condolences go to the bereaved families. I strongly condemn this cowardly act of terrorism. The perpetrators will surely be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMShehbaz\/status\/1518920601389473794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Explosion occurred in the premises of University of Karachi claim lives of four people including three Chinese nationals, while four other sustained serious injuries. According to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), it was a suicide blast and was carried out by a burqa-clad woman. According to CCTV footage, explosion occurred at 1:52pm in a van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25617,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/25617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}