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4 policemen martyred in blast in Quetta's Satellite Town
[DAWN] Four coppers were martyred when a blast destroyed a market in Quetta's Satellite Town on Monday night, according to Quetta Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Police Abdul Razzaq Cheema.The DIG said that two coppers and seven civilians were maimed in the blast, and that a police van was damaged. The blast, according to DIG Cheema, was the result of an improvised bomb (IED) planted in a cycle of violence parked on the roadside. The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital, where an emergency was imposed. Security officials, meanwhile, cordoned off the area. It is the fourth act of violence in the country since the holy month of Ramazan began. On May 8, five coppers were martyred in what officials described as a suicide kaboom targeting an Elite Force van detailed to the security of the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore. Later the same day, three people, including a tribal leader named Wali Khan Achakzai, were killed in a blast in Killa Abdullah. Today's blast comes two days after a terrorist attack on Pearl Continental Hotel, Gwadar in which three people were killed while four were maimed. Posted by: Fred 2019-05-14 |
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