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grabbed credit for the blast in a statement shared with Rooters.
"It was a remote-control bomb planted in a cycle of violence
," Deputy Commissioner of the district Tariq Javed Mengal told Rooters, adding that the earth-shattering kaboom was targeting a vehicle carrying a police brass hat.Mengal said the earth-shattering kaboom occurred as the police vehicle was passing by. A shopkeeper, a passer-by and a child were killed, and two security personnel were among the 13 others injured.
The injured were immediately shifted to district hospital in Chaman, and nine were taken to a hospital in the bustling provincial capital of Quetta, a police officer told Rooters. The senior police officer who was apparently the target of the blast was not injured. Security forces launched a search operation in the area after the incident.
The bombing comes amid a sharp rise in violence by the Pak Taliban, a group that once used the border region to launch attacks inside Pakistain as well as host bad boys, including Al Qaeda.
The group was largely in disarray after a major Pak military ground operation, but last year several splinter groups announced a new alliance and since then attacks on security personnel as well as civilians have risen.