At least 19 people, including a woman and a child, were wounded and two were reported to be in critical condition as a home-made bomb exploded in Quetta on Friday afternoon. "Explosive devices planted in a motorcycle and a cycle parked in front of the Allied Bank in Chaman Patak on Jail Road, went off at around 4pm," Balochistan Inspector General (IG) of Police Chaudhry Yaqoob told Daily Times.
Several cars, auto-rickshaws and motorcycles parked nearby were also damaged. The IG vowed that those responsible for the blast would be arrested. The blast occurred a kilometre from Ayub Stadium, where a three-day public gathering of the Jamaat-i-Islami had begun on the same day. The injured were shifted to Quetta Civil Hospital. |