KARACHI: At least nine people, including four security personnel and an eight-year-old girl, were killed and about 40 others injured today in a Taliban suicide attack that targeted a Frontier Corps vehicle in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.
A powerful blast rocked the congested Kachari area of Quetta near the premises of the heavily guarded city district courts.
At least nine people were killed and about 40 others injured when the Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle was targeted, officials said.
DIG Imtiaz Shah was quoted by Dawn News as saying that it was a suicide attack and the attacker blew himself up near a vehicle belonging to the FC.
Anwar-ul-Haq, a spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said the injured were shifted to hospitals and among them the condition of eight was critical.
The Kachari area that houses the district and sessions courts, a market and a hospital, is usually packed with people and Haq said it was congested as usual when the blast took place near Liaquat park. (AGENCIES)
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