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Car bomb kills two paramilitary personnel in Quetta: police
Two soldiers were killed and several other maimed when a car boom targeted a paramilitary convoy in the troubled southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, police said.The car was packed with explosives and parked on the main airport road. It went off as vehicles of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) passed by, senior police officer Malik Arshad told AFP. "The blast destroyed two military vehicles and killed two soldiers, and maimed around 10 others, mostly civilians," he said. The kaboom happened near Almo Chowk, located on the city's main airport road, which is among Quetta's 'Red-zone' areas. Police and security forces are frequently attacked in the insurgency-hit Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-15 |
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