Quetta: Over 10 passengers were killed and more than 15 were injured on Monday when a powerful bomb exploded in a passenger bus in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, the local officials said.
The bomb explosion came as a night fell when the employee in central Quetta left for their homes on the outskirts of the city. “I can confirm that at least 10 people have been killed and 23 were injured in a bomb explosion in a bus,” Akbar Hussain Durrani, home secretary of Baluchistan province, told AFP.
Dorrani said, ‘the bus was filled with the workers’ but could not give any further details regarding how the explosion was detonated.
“We suspect somebody had hid a bomb in the backside of the bus, but there are also chances that somebody was maybe carrying it,” Durrani said.
Senior police official Waheed Khatak told AFP the bomb exploded as the bus was driving near a fly-over in the Sariab road neighborhood outside Quetta. A police surgeon, Doctor Noor Baluch, said all 10 people were already dead by the time their bodies arrived in hospital, while 23 others had been wounded and “five of the injured people are in critical condition,” he added.
Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is capital, is rife with Islamic, sectarian and separatist insurgencies.
