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At least 6 policemen martyred in suicide attack targeting police van in Quetta
 [DAWN] At least six coppers were martyred and seven others were maimed when a jacket wallah targeted a police van on Airport Road in Quetta on Tuesday evening, Quetta DIG Razzaq Cheema told DawnNewsTV.Moreover, two suicide bombers also attacked a Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) checkpost in Quetta's Mian Ghundi area, however, the FC personnel killed the attackers following an exchange of fire, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. "The first suicide bomber went kaboom!outside a FC checkpost in the outskirts of Quetta city after he was spotted by the guards," 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 Ghulam Ali Baloch told AFP. "Just in the next moments, another bomber who was covering the first attacker exchanged fire with the security forces and later went kaboom!." Some eight paramilitary officials were maimed in this attack, he added. Around half an hour later a third bomber drove his cycle of violence into a police truck on a road leading to the airport, killing at least six coppers, Baloch added. Moazam Jah Ansari, Quetta's police chief, confirmed the attacks and said the bombing of the police truck was so powerful that the vehicle overturned. It was not clear whether the third bomber was wearing an explosive vest or if the bike was filled with explosives. "Seven coppers were maimed in this attack," he said, adding that the three blasts may have been coordinated. Posted by: Fred 2018-04-25 |
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