Officials of police and other law enforcement agencies have also set up checkpoints in and around Chaman Gate Road to search for criminals.
2 injured in Quetta blast near security checkpoint. At least 2 people were injured as a result of an explosion near Chaman Gate area of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, Pakistan. The blast also broke the windows of the nearby buildings.
According to police officials, the blast took place near Chaman Gate in Ganjanabad area of Quetta. Two pedestrians, identified as Ghulam Hussain and his son Osama, were injured in the blast.
The injured were immediately shifted to Civil Hospital. The condition of both the injured is said to be out of danger.
Police, Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Frontier Corps (FC), Bomb Disposal Squad and other law enforcement agencies have reached the spot to collect evidence and start investigation.
Officials of police and other law enforcement agencies have also set up checkpoints in and around Chaman Gate Road to search for criminals.
Last week, at least 50 people, including 14 security men, lost their lives in different parts of Balochistan as dozens of militants affiliated with the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) — a separatist outfit — went on a rampage across the province, storming police stations, blowing up railway tracks, and setting fire to almost three dozen vehicles.
In subsequent operations, the armed forces’ media wing said 21 militants were neutralised by the security forces as Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi vowed to crush terrorism in the province.
In Musakhail, a district on the border with Punjab, the militants shot dead 23 people after checking their identity documents.
“We found 23 bullet-riddled bodies lying by a roadside,” Ayub Achakzai, Musakhail SSP told Dawn. He added that among the dead bodies, a person who was shot in the legs was rescued.
In Kalat, militants attacked a Levies station, two hotels, and the residence of a tribal elder besides setting alight a toll plaza on the national highway.
In the exchange of fire, 11 people, including four Levies officials and a police sub-inspector, lost their lives whereas nine people, including Kalat Assistant Commissioner Aftab Lasi, were injured.
In Bolan’s Kolpur area, six bodies were recovered. Security officials believed they were also shot dead by militants.
