Balochistan unrest: Bomb defused, man slain in Quetta

A bicycle was fitted with up to 10 kilograms of explosives and was connected to a time device.

QUETTA:

Frontier Corps personnel discovered a booby-trapped bicycle parked near a hospital in the provincial capital on Sunday.

The bicycle was fitted with up to 10 kilograms of explosives and was connected to a time device, according to police. Unidentified miscreants had parked the bicycle near Tariq hospital when an FC patrol spotted it. Police has registered a case and no arrests were made.

Separately a man was gunned down in Quetta when an unidentified man opened indiscriminate fire at Essa Nagri on Brewery Road. The man was identified as Manzoor after the body was dispatched to a hospital for medico-legal formalities.

In another incident two persons were wounded in a landmine explosion in Lehri tehsil area of Sibi in Balochistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 4^th, 2013.