According to officials, a suicide bomb blast in Quetta’s Baleli neighborhood killed three people—a police officer, a woman, and a child—and injured at least 27 others on Wednesday morning.
The Balochistan Constabulary‘s truck was the intended target of the blast, according to the authorities, and it also struck two passing vehicles. In Quetta, the police squad was getting ready to accompany polio vaccine recipients.
At the Civil hospital, the injured are receiving care. According to hospital officials, the majority of the victims’ conditions are not dangerous.
According to the most recent statistics released by the police, at least 23 of those hurt were officers.
Shortly after the blast was reported, Deputy Inspector-General Ghulam Azfar Mahesar gave a press conference where he described the explosion’s nature and the preliminary information that law enforcement officials had gathered.
The DIG claimed that the suicide attack employed 20 to 25 kg of explosives. He acknowledged that authorities discovered the suicide bomber’s remains close to the scene of the crime.
According to him, the blast caused the police truck to overturn, and it then plunged into a ravine.
The police officer was killed as a result of being crushed under the truck when it fell into the ravine, according to DIG Mehsar, who also provided information about casualties and damaged civilian vehicles. He claimed that the two police officers’ conditions were serious.
Balochistan Inspector-General Abdul Khaliq Sheikh said that terrorists launched a “cowardly attack on the police force”.
He said that such attacks will not lower the police’s morale.
“Protecting people’s lives and property is our job. Our morale is high, and our determination is strong,” the IGP said.
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