Suicide bomber kills four in Quetta

ISLAMABAD: At least four people including a child were killed and 17 others injured as a blast rocked the Sariab Road of Quetta on Saturday.

Police said that a suicide bomber hit a vehicle of the Frontier Corps (FC). The attacker targeted the car of the FC Commandant who was not travelling in the vehicle at the time.

The injured were shifted to Quetta Civil Hospital and Bolan Medical Complex where an emergency has been declared. Police and paramilitary troops rushed to the area and cordoned of the blast site.

The entry and exit points of the city were closed following the attack as security forces launched search operation.

Earlier this month, a senior police oficial and two of his colleagues were killed when a suicide bomber struck his convoy in Quetta. The attacker hit the convoy of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Telecommunication, Hamid Shakeel Sabir during his morning commute at the Chaman Housing Scheme, killing him, his driver and an assistant sub-inspector. Shakeel was on his way to ofice when the suicide bomber rammed himself into his vehicle, police had then said. “The DIG, Ramzan Muhammad Hasani and driver Jalil martyred in the attack.”

The outlawed Tehrik-e-taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released to the media.

Since the police force and FC are mainly engaged in continued operations against terrorists and other criminal elements in Balochistan, their personnel mostly come under attack.