Quetta(Ghulam Yassen/Webdesk)_ At least seven people including a chairman of a union council were killed in a bomb explosion in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on Monday night,
Levies sources said a vehicle was targeted through a remote-controlled blast in the Balgatar area of the Kech district near the Panjgur border. Ishaq Balgatri, the UC chairman was among the dead.
“The victims were going in a vehicle for a wedding party when targeted,” Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove confirmed. He said miscreants targeted the vehicle through a remote-controlled bomb.
A powerful bomb blast occurred at a mosque in the Ali Masjid area in Jamrud – Khyber district in which a police officer – additional SHO Adnan Afridi was martyred and other people got injured.
According to the initial investigation, it was a suicide bomb blast. Rescue teams shifted the wounded persons to a local hospital for medical assistance. Security forces cordoned off the whole area and started a search operation to arrest the culprit.
It was learned that the district Khyber Police conducted an intelligence-based operation over the information of the presence of two terrorists in an under-construction mosque in Jamrud.
A levies official disclosed that the blast happened 140 kilometers away from Panjgur near the Kech district’s border. Panjgur and Kech also share borders with Iran.
Dozens of deadly attacks on security forces and government-backed groups have taken place in the area before.
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