{"id":23423,"date":"2026-08-21T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23423"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:15:15","slug":"six-killed-three-critically-injured-in-blast-at-orchard-in-balochistans-mastung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23423","title":{"rendered":"Six killed, three critically injured in blast at orchard in Balochistan&#8217;s Mastung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quetta: At least six people were killed and three others injured in an explosion at an orchard in the Khad Kucha area of Mastung district in Balochistan, with hospital officials describing the condition of the injured as critical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to DSP Rafiq Hamza, the explosion occurred at an orchard in Khad Kucha, Mastung, resulting in multiple casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Police said six people were killed and three others sustained injuries in the blast. The bodies and injured were subsequently shifted to a hospital in Mastung.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital authorities said the injured were receiving treatment at Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Hospital and their condition was critical.<\/p>\n<p>Police and other law enforcement personnel reached the site following the explosion and cordoned off the area.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have begun collecting evidence from the scene to determine the circumstances surrounding the explosion and investigate other aspects of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A bomb disposal squad has also been called to the site to determine the nature of the blast and examine the explosive material involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quetta: At least six people were killed and three others injured in an explosion at an orchard in the Khad Kucha area of Mastung district in Balochistan, with hospital officials describing the condition of the injured as critical. According to DSP Rafiq Hamza, the explosion occurred at an orchard in Khad Kucha, Mastung, resulting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[54,2794,446,13407,7980,6077,13409,13408,289,553],"class_list":["post-23423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-balochistan","tag-bomb-disposal-squad","tag-explosion","tag-khad-kucha","tag-mastung","tag-mastung-blast","tag-nawab-ghous-bakhsh-hospital","tag-orchard-blast","tag-police","tag-quetta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23424,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23423\/revisions\/23424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}