QUETTA: on
Tuesday Five police personnel were
wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Quetta's Eastern
Bypass area,
Five
police officials were left injured in the blast, which left the police vehicle
damaged.
The police men were on patrolling the area in a
mobile van when they were targeted through an IED, they said. One of the police
men condition is critical,
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the attack. Militants in the area have been targeting
security forces in the past.
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but
least developed province, has remained under the grip of violence for over a
decade which has claimed thousands of lives.
