F.P. Report
QUETTA: At least five people, including a security official, got injured in a blast on Quetta’s Qambrani road on Monday.
According to rescue officials, the injured have been shifted to a nearby hospital for medical attention.
Citing an initial investigation, the police said some explosive device planted roadside went off, as a result of which, five people, including an FC man and four passers-by, got injured.
A spokesperson for the Balochistan government, Liaquat Shahwani confirmed that the five people were injured in the blast.
On getting information, a contingent of security forces reached the site and cordoned it off to collect evidence.
This is a second explosion in Quetta city in less than a week’s time. At least seven people, including three leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Nazaryati), were killed and 14 others injured in an explosion in the border town of Chaman, Qila Abdullah district Friday last.
JUI-N’s naib emir Maulana Abdul Qadir Luni was the target of the attackers, officials said. He suffered injuries in the bombing.
