Police and security officials inspect the site of an IED bomb blast in Quetta on Thursday. PHOTO: BANARAS KHAN/EXPRESS
“One of the injured succumbed to his injuries on his way to hospital. We received one dead body and 25 injured, including boys in their early teenage,” the medico legal officer at the Sandeman hospital told The Express Tribune.
Some of the injured are in critical condition while others received splinter wounds.
Rescue workers said some of the injured had been taken to private hospitals.
According to the Pashtunabad police station, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) had been planted under a vendor’s stall in the crowded Metta Chowk.
"A timed device planted along the road side close to several pushcarts selling mainly dry fruits went off, killing one person and wounding 15 others," local bomb disposal chief Abdul Razzaq told AFP.
Soon after the blast, a heavy contingent of police and security forces rushed to the spot soon and put up a cordon around the blast area.
Pashtunabad is an outskirt of Quetta where hundreds of Afghan refugees have taken shelter for years.
Blast in Peshawar
An IED exploded in the Badhaber area of Peshawar on Thursday evening that injured three people, Express News reported.
The IED exploded near a mosque.
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