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India-Pakistan
Blast in Quetta kills at least two
2014-05-09
[DAWN] A powerful blast on Thursday killed two persons and injured over a dozen others in Quetta, the capital of volatile 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, police said.
Superintendent of Police Imran Qureshi said the hard boyz had planted explosives in a cycle of violence parked near a Nadra office in the crowded Double road area of the city.

"Two people was struck down in his prime," Qureshi said.

The intensity of the blast smashed glass windows of nearby shops and offices in the area. The kaboom could be heard from afar.

Qureshi said that it could not be confirmed what the intended target of the hard boyz was.

The blast also damaged three vehicles and three cycle of violences parked close to the Nadra office.

"Most of the victims are civilians," Qureshi said.

The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital for medical treatment where the doctors said the condition of one of the injured was serious.

According to the bomb disposal squad, more than 10 kilograms of explosives were planted in the cycle of violence.

Police and Frontier Corps were quick to arrive at the scene. They cordoned off the area as investigation into the incident went underway.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

In a separate incident, two children were maimed when they touched a bomb planted on a road side in Quetta's Ittehad Colony area, police said.

Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police said two children walking on the road hit a road side bomb in Moslem Ittehad Colony area of the Balochistan capital. The injured children were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for medical treatment.
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