Dera Bugti unrest: Landmine injures folk singer’s son, says niece
The wounded children were transported to a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab
QUETTA:
The son and niece of Balochi folk singer Sabz Ali Bugti were critically injured in a landmine explosion outside his home in Dera Bugti Town in the Bugti Tribal Territory. According to an official of Dera Bugti Levies, six-year-old Nabila and seven-year-old Abdul Majeed Sabz were playing outside Sabz Ali’s house when a landmine planted there went off. The children sustained critical wounds. The wounded children were transported to a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab, as there was no proper health facility in the resource rich Dera Bugti. The girl is in a critical condition, the official said quoting doctors. The Balochistan Levies have started an investigation into the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 9th, 2014.
The son and niece of Balochi folk singer Sabz Ali Bugti were critically injured in a landmine explosion outside his home in Dera Bugti Town in the Bugti Tribal Territory. According to an official of Dera Bugti Levies, six-year-old Nabila and seven-year-old Abdul Majeed Sabz were playing outside Sabz Ali’s house when a landmine planted there went off. The children sustained critical wounds. The wounded children were transported to a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab, as there was no proper health facility in the resource rich Dera Bugti. The girl is in a critical condition, the official said quoting doctors. The Balochistan Levies have started an investigation into the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 9th, 2014.