QUETTA: At least two Frontier Corps (FC) officials have been injured after an explosion rocked Quetta’s Airport Road today (Thursday), according to police.
The blast occurred close to a moving Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle, police said. The injured people, one of whom was identified as an FC official, were rushed to the hospital.
A spokesperson for the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) said that the nature of the blast was being determined. The area has been cordoned off and further investigations are ongoing, police said. Witnesses have said the explosion damaged several nearby buildings.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Zia Langove said a convoy of six Pakistan Army vehicles was passing on the road when the bomb — fitted in a motorcycle — detonated. “Four to five kilograms of explosive material was used in the blast. Five security officials were injured in the blast and were taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH),” he told reporters.
“India is using Afghanistan’s land to conduct attacks in Pakistan. Peace in Balochistan will only come from peace in Afghanistan,” he added.
Last week, five FC soldiers were martyred after terrorists targeted a patrolling party in Sibi district’s Sangan area. Earlier in June, four soldiers from FC Balochistan, including a junior commissioned officer, had been martyred in a blast on the Marget-Quetta Road.
According to the ISPR, terrorists had used an improvised explosive device to target the FC troops who were employed on the road for security of Marget mines.
