{"id":18768,"date":"2013-06-23T21:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2013-06-23T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T17:33:04","slug":"unidentified-gunmen-kill-10-foreign-mountain-climbers-and-their-guide-at-a-hotel-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=18768","title":{"rendered":"Unidentified gunmen kill 10 foreign mountain climbers and their guide at a hotel in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nanga-parbat2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18763\" alt=\"A high altitude porter ascends a steep slope of Nanga Parbat\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nanga-parbat2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nanga-parbat2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nanga-parbat2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nanga-parbat2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Police say gunmen killed 11 people, 10 of them foreigners, after barging into a hotel where the victims were staying in northern Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The group of tourists from Russia, the Ukraine, and China were staying in Pakistan&#8217;s Gilgit-Baltistan region in order to climb\u00a0 Nanga Parbat, one of the world&#8217;s highest mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen have yet to be identified and their motives are currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Local police chief Barkat Ali says the climbers from Russia, China and the Ukraine were killed before dawn Sunday as they set off to climb Nanga Parbat, a popular destination for trekkers, in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen are said to have stormed into the hotel where the tourists were staying, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>A senior government official told reporters that a large number of security personnel have been sent to Gilgit-Baltistan in the wake of the shooting spree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Since the area is very remote with no roads or transport, their bodies will have to be retrieved by helicopter,&#8217; the official said, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say gunmen killed 11 people, 10 of them foreigners, after barging into a hotel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-pakistan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}