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Major blast kills 15 in capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province
[Iran Press TV] At least 15 people have been killed in a major kaboom in the southwestern Pak city of Quetta, the capital of 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. Balochistan's home minister, Sarfraz Bugti, said 32 other people were maimed in the kaboom, which targeted commuters at a bus stop. "We can now confirm that 15 people have died in the kaboom today. At least 32 others are maimed," Bugti told a local TV station. Other officials in the area, including the front man for the Balochistan government, also confirmed the toll although medical officials had earlier put the number of casualties at eight killed and 17 injured. Bugti said rescue had begun as the area targeted in the blast caught fire soon after the kaboom. "We are trying to transfer injured people to hospitals as soon as possible. Workers are also busy extinguishing the fire at the site," he said, adding that doctors in Quetta could not go to holidays as they had to see to the maimed of the blast. Bugti said an investigation was launched to determine the nature of the blast and whether it was a terrorist attack. No terror group grabbed credit as it has been for previous such incidents in Balochistan, a province rich in oil and gas resources that borders Iran and Afghanistan. ISIS, a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group which mainly operates in the Middle East but has also established a branch in Afghanistan, has claimed several attacks in the Pak territory in the recent past. Attacks have also been reported by groups related to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Posted by: Fred 2017-08-13 |
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