Twist of fate: Militants die in bombing bid

The militants were planning to blow up the rail tracks and derail a train


August 28, 2015
PHOTO: FILE

QUETTA:


Three militants who were strapping an improvised explosive device (IED) to a rail track died on Thursday after they accidently detonated a hand grenade and set off a blast in the Bala Nari area of Bolan district in central Balochistan.


The militants were planning to blow up the rail tracks and derail a train. “The saboteurs were placing a bomb on the railway track, but it went off prematurely,” an official of the Levies Force said. “The militants were planting the bomb when a hand grenade exploded accidentally triggering the IED too,” said Bala Nari tehsildar Kamran Raisani.

Personnel of Levies, Frontier Corps, and bomb disposal unit rushed to the site on hearing the explosions.

The bodies could not be identified immediately, Raisani tehsildar said.

Meanwhile, two men were shot dead in Quetta on Thursday. The SHO of New Sariab police station, Maqbool Gujjar, said that Rab Nawaz and his friend Sudher were sitting outside their house when unidentified motorcycle riders came close and shot them.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2015.

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