Bomb blast kills two in Quetta

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Source: Tribune (Pakistan)

QUETTA -- Two people were killed and 15 others wounded, including several wedding party guests, when a bomb exploded in a rickshaw in Quetta on Monday, police said.

“It was an improvised explosive device which went off in a rickshaw close to the regional office of the National Highway Authority (NHA),” police officer Shabbir Sheikh said, adding that the rickshaw was heading to the airport. The Shia Ulema Council claimed that Allama Najfi was the target, who was travelling in his car on the Airport Road when the blast occurred.

However, he remained safe. Police said two people – the rickshaw driver and a passenger – were killed while around 15 people travelling in a passenger van were wounded. The injured included women and children who were going to a wedding party. “It is possible the passenger in the rickshaw, who died in the blast, was carrying the bomb which exploded prematurely,” police said. Muhammad Noor, a medical officer at Quetta’s Civil Hospital, confirmed the casualties.

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