Balochistan CM’s aide survives bomb attack

Majid Abro was travelling to airport when an improvised explosive device was remotely detonated near his vehicle.

QUETTA:

A top aide to the Balochistan chief minister and his driver were injured in a bomb attack in Quetta on Saturday.

Majid Abro – adviser to Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch – was travelling to the airport when an improvised explosive device (IED) was remotely detonated near his vehicle.

DIG (Operations) Mohammed Jaffar told The Express Tribune that Abro and his driver sustained injuries in the attack.  “Their condition is stable now,” he added.

In other violence, a man was killed and four others were wounded when a bomb went off in the Bakhtyarabad area of Sibi district on Saturday. According to Deputy Commissioner Aziz Jamali, an IED strapped to a motorcycle was remotely triggered near a taxi stand, one of the crowded areas of Bakhtyarabad. As a result, five people, including a police constable, were injured.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2014.