Four killed in blast targeting police vehicle in Pakistan’s Quetta

Islamabad, Apr. 10 (BNA): Four people were killed and 15 wounded in an explosion targeting a police vehicle in a market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta today, Monday, a medical official said.

Senior police official Shafqat Cheema told Reuters the target was the car of the acting director of police investigations, which was parked in the Kandahari bazaar.

He said that initial reports showed that an explosive device was planted in a motorcycle parked behind the car, rigged with an improvised explosive device containing four to five kilograms of explosives from a distance.

Zohaib Mohsin Baloch, the chief police operations officer, said two police officers who were sitting in the car were among the dead.

Wasim Baig, a spokesman for the Quetta hospital, told Reuters that the number of injured had reached 15, in addition to the four dead.

Prior to Monday’s attack, gunmen on Sunday targeted members of the police’s Eagle Division in Quetta, killing two police officers and wounding another. The police killed one of the attackers.

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