Two officers injured in blast near police mobile in Kuchlak

An explosion near a police vehicle in Kuchlak, a town on the outskirts of Quetta, has left two officers injured.

According to Express News, the blast occurred close to a police mobile, prompting an immediate response from emergency services and law enforcement agencies.

The injured officers were swiftly shifted to a hospital by ambulance.

Police and other law enforcement officials arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area to collect evidence, as investigation into the incident went underway.

Earlier, five people were injured in a blast near the Musa check post in Quetta.

Police sources said security personnel deployed at the checkpoint near the Quetta Police Lines were also among the injured.

The injured were rushed to Shaheed Benazir Bhutto hospital for medical treatment. The blast was heard far and wide causing panic in the provincial capital.

The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, confirming that security officials were targeted in the blast.

In another attack, four people, including a policeman and a woman and her son, died while more than two dozen others sustained injuries in a powerful blast in Quetta’s Baleli area that targeted a police patrol, senior police officials said.

Deputy Inspector General of Police, Quetta, Azfar Mehesar said that a police truck, carrying policemen, was hit in the attack.

He gave the death toll from the explosion at four.

Azfar Mehesar added that one policeman died inside the police truck, while a woman and her son died in another vehicle, while on their way to Quetta.

A senior security official said on the condition of anonymity that initial police investigation suggested it was a suicide attack. The suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the police truck.

There was a huge blast in which the police truck was destroyed, the official said.