QUETTA: Five people including a child lost their lives in a suicide blast at the city’s Sariab Road on Saturday, police said.Four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel are among the 19 people injured in the blast that targetted an FC commandant vehicle, police said. There was no one in the vehicle at the time of the attack.”The body parts of the alleged suicide attacker have been found,” Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Abdul Razzak Cheema said.
Three suspects from near the site of the incident have been taken into custody and are being probed, police sources told media. Police are often targetted in terrorist attacks in Balochistan.The last such attack occurred on November 14 when the Superintendent of Police (SP) Investigation Mohammad Ilyas along with his three family members was martyred after unknown gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in the Nawa Kali area of the provincial capital.On November 8, DIG Hamid Shakeel, who was heading the motor transport and telecommunications department, and two other police officials were martyred when the DIG’s convoy was targetted in a bomb attack. In an earlier attack, eight policemen were martyred after unidentified attackers rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into their truck.Over 20 others were wounded in the bombing, according to hospital authorities.In August this year, a massive suicide explosion, targeting Pakistan Army personnel in Quetta, left 15 people dead – including seven civilians – and injured at least 20 people.The blast, which reportedly took place in a vehicle, occurred at the Pishin bus stop, causing cars in the surroundings to catch fire soon after.In June this year, fourteen people, including seven policemen, were killed and 21 injured in a suicide car bombing near the office of the inspector general of police Balochistan on Gulistan Road.
