Four people died and another five were injured when an improvised explosive device (FDI) together with a motorcycle shot in a market in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan, according to the police.
NaAL Police Station House Officer (SHO) BAHAWAL KHAN PINDRANI confirmed the victims to Dawn.comTo say that the condition of one of the injured was serious. The health officer of the Rafiq Sasoli district also confirmed the same.
The sho said the explosive was attached to a motorcycle and detonated remotely after the bicycle parked next to a car.
He said that the pump elimination squad was present on the spot and inspecting the site.
However, a statement from the Edhi Foundation of the Rescue Service put the highest number of deaths in five with several injured in the explosion in the Naal Bazaar in Khuzdar. He added that the victims were transferred to the hospital to receive treatment.
Khuzdar Police Superintendent Javed Zehri said Dawn.com The explosion occurred near a university near the market and burned vehicles as well. He said the injured were taken to the Khuzdar Teaching Hospital to receive treatment.
Baluchistan’s prime minister, Mir Sarfraz Bugti, firmly condemned the explosion in a statement, added that orders were issued to provide the injured with the best available medical care.
“Terrorism will be eradicated in all its forms,” said CM Bugti. “The hostile peace elements will fail in their disastrous goals and those involved in this incident will be taken before justice.”
Baluchistan’s government spokesman Shahid Rind, also condemned the explosion and “lamented the loss of human life.”
“Terrorist elements cannot demoralize people,” said Rind. “Cowardly acts are a conspiracy to sabotage law and order.”
The incident occurs immediately after an attack against Bannu’s cliff in the homonymous district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, when the terrorists had rammed two vehicles loaded with explosives in the perimeter in an attempt to enter the high security zone on Tuesday night.
The 16 terrorists were eliminated, while five soldiers were martyred when the security forces responded to the attack. Meanwhile, 13 civilians lost their lives, while another 32 were injured as a result of a mosque and a residential building that suffers “severe destruction” due to suicidal explosions that cause partially collapsing the perimeter wall.
On January 26, two people died and seven other wounds in a car pump explosion near a passenger bus that travels from Khuzdar to Rawalpindi, in the Khori area on the Khuzdar-Shahadkot road.
Pakistan has witnessed an increase in terrorist activities recently, especially in KP and Baluchistan after the forbidden Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ended the fire with the government with the government in November 2022.
February saw a marginal increase in terrorist attacks, but a strong increase in civilian casualties, according to a report published by a group of experts based in Islamabad, Institute of Conflict Studies and Security of Pakistan (PICC).
According to Piccs, the country witnessed 79 terrorist attacks last month, which resulted in the death of 55 civilians and 47 security personnel, while 45 civilians and 81 security personnel were injured. The security forces, meanwhile, intensified anti -terrorist operations, eliminating 156 terrorists, wounding 20 and stopping 66, according to the report.
According to Piccs, Baluchistan remained the most volatile province, registering 32 attacks that charged 56 lives, including 35 civilians, 10 security personnel and 11 militants.
The attacks also left 44 people injured, including 32 security forces to personnel and 12 civilians. The terrorists also kidnapped two people during the month, according to the report.
The Bashir Zeb and Azad factions, the Baluchistan Liberation Front and the Baloch Unido Army attributed the responsibility of most of these attacks. The security forces, in response, killed 11 terrorists in Baluchistan, according to the report.
Additional Imtiaz Ali and Abdullah Zehri reports.
