Bomb blast kills soldier, injures four in Pakistan’s Quetta
At least one soldier has been killed and four others injured in a bomb explosion at a paramilitary checkpoint in southwestern Pakistan.
Police said the bomb went off early Saturday when soldiers reached the site for daily duty in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province.
“It was an IED (improvised explosive device) which exploded the moment soldiers reached the checkpoint,” Abdul Waheed Khattak, a senior police official told AFP, adding the condition of one of the injured soldiers was critical.
Police cordoned off the area and ambulances rushed to the region to transfer the injured people to nearby hospitals.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
In October, a bomb blast targeted a bus in the same area and killed 10 people including women and children.
Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan Province has been the scene of several bomb and gun attacks over the past couple of years. Hundreds of Shia Muslims have been killed in militant attacks there.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror. Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping the country.
Pakistan has been waging a major offensive against militant hideouts across the troubled northwestern tribal regions since June last year, when a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended the government’s faltering peace talks with the militants.
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