Some overzealous media outlets and their reporters caused panic in the city by misreporting the already announced blasting of confiscated explosive materials and ammunition on Wednesday.
Civil Defence had published advertisements in all newspapers in Quetta about the planned destruction of confiscated explosives on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The explosions were reported on almost all news channels in the country. “Two huge back-to-back explosions are heard in Quetta city. Police and rescue workers are getting to the crime scene,” read tickers flashed for more than five minutes on news channels. Two stations said police had cordoned off the blast site and the injured were being taken to hospital.
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Abdul Razzaq Cheema said Civil Defence will continue to destroy confiscated explosives over the next two days.
Quetta is vulnerable to bombings and hundreds have died in bomb blasts that took place in different part of the city during the past few years.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2013.
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