At least two persons, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed and 15 others were wounded when a powerful bomb exploded in Smmungli area in the provincial capital on Monday. Officials of the police said that the explosive device went off at around 7:30 pm, at Smmungli area outside a fast food centre. The explosive device, which went off with a big bang, was planted on a bicycle of an unidentified person, said officials of police while talking to The News at the site of the explosion.Following the blast, two vehicles and even number of motorcycles and scooters were damaged, besides, three shops were damaged badly. Due to the explosion the windowpanes of nearby buildings and vehicles, which were plying on the road, smashed. Officials of the police said that the explosive device was either timed or remote controlled. Some other sources confided that it was half-kilogram high power explosive material, which had been connected to a time device. The deceased were identified as Afghan girl who belonged to Uzbek tribe Ruquyya Bibi, 8, and Irfan Baloch, 35. The deceased sustained multiple injuries and breathed their last on the spot.
A large number of people most of them young ones were sitting in the expanded courtyard of the area and enjoying the tea, burgers, fast food and most of them the company of the friends, when the explosive device strapped in a bicycle went off with a big bang, causing injuries to over 15 persons three of them seriously. The injured were shifted to the civil hospital for medical treatment. The limbs and flash of many victims were scattered on the road. Police and the local administration reached the spot of explosion and started investigations. No arrest was made in the incident till our going to the press.