Six injured in Quetta blast

QUETTA: At least six people, including three children, were injured Friday as a result of a road-side blast near Quetta’s Sariab school.

The road-side blast was carried out through a remote-controlled device. So far, a rickshaw driver is said to be in critical condition.

According to sources, tribal elders from Sibbi were supposed to pass along the way.



Last month, at least five people, including a child, were killed and 26 others, including two women and seven children, were injured in a blast in Quetta on Friday.

The remote-controlled bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked at the Almo Chowk area of the provincial capital, where people were busy shopping for Ramazan and Eidul Fitr, officials said.

“Five people were killed and 27 others were wounded when the bomb went off at Almo Chowk,” Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Quetta Police, Chaudhry Manzoor Sarwar said. According to officials, two of the deceased died on the spot and two others succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. One more injured victim passed away later in the evening.



“The bomb used between five to seven kilogrammes of explosives,” DIG Sarwar said. He added that it was too early to conclude whether ‘foreign hands’ were behind the attack.

The deceased and wounded were shifted to the Quetta Civil Hospital and the city’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH). The condition of eight wounded was said to be critical. An emergency has been declared at both hospitals.