IED blast in Chaman injures eight

QUETTA: A blast on Saturday injured eight people, including Balochistan Levies personnel, at Chaman – a small Balochistan town that shares borders with restive Afghanistan.

According to Chaman Assistant Commissioner Sami Agha, the bomb – a remote controlled improvised explosive device (IED) – was mounted on a motorcycle parked near the Levies station at Chaman.

“The bomb detonated when a vehicle of Levies Risaldar Major Nasibullah Achakzai and Chaman Tehsildar Abdul Razzaq Tareen approached the station,” he told The Express Tribune.

After the blast, security forces rushed to the site and cordoned off the area. They shifted the injured to Chaman DHQ Hospital. In a statement issued later by the Balochistan government spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani, the IED blast targeted Balochistan Levies Risaldar Major Achakzai.

Sources in the hospital confirmed that all injured including the tehsildar and the risaldar were out of danger.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 8^th, 2020.