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Suicide blast at Quetta's Brewery road kills two
[DAWN] At least two people were killed in a suicide kaboom near Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University at Quetta's Brewery road late on Friday.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... Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said that the bomber attempted to enter Quetta's Hazara town area but was intercepted by security personnel. He added that the interception forced the attacker, who was wearing women's clothes, to prematurely detonate his explosives. Durrani also hailed the efforts of the security guard. Hazara Town is a locality populated mainly by the ethnic Hazara Shia minority which has been targeted by holy warrior bully boy groups. Bomb Disposal Squad officials who arrived at the spot earlier had also confirmed that the kaboom was carried out by a jacket wallah and that seven to eight kilograms of kaboom was used in the blast. Security sources claimed that those killed in the attack included the attacker and the security guard who had intercepted the 25-year-old bomber. Rescue personnel reached the spot and shifted the victims to a nearby hospital. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-18 |
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