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Blast kills 3
in Quetta
Bureau Report
QUETTA—At least three persons including two policemen were killed while
score of other sustained injuries on Thursday when a suicide car bomber
blew him up in front of IGP Balochistan Office, witnesses said.
However, police said the bomb was planted in the car, which went off,
when police stopped it at a check post near the office of IGP Chaudary
Muhammad Yaqoob at Gulistan Road in Cantonment area. The explosion also
damaged nearby parked vehicles and smashed windowpanes of buildings.
Some other source suspected that it was suicide attack as the car which
wad moving blown up by remote control when it reached in front of the IG
office. Police contingent and bomb disposal squad medially rushed to the
spot and inspected the site and condoned off the roads leading to the
site. The incident occurred in highly sensitive area where important
public buildings and a girls’ college is situated. Interior Minister
Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has strongly condemned terrorist attack in
Quetta that resulted in the loss of lives of two policemen and caused
injuries to civilians. |