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India-Pakistan
Quetta blast leaves two policemen dead
2016-05-12
[DAWN] Two coppers were killed and eight other people injured in a kaboom here on Tuesday.

The kaboom, which took place on Sariab Road in front 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...
University, also injured a five-year-old child and three police personnel. University students remained safe.

"The target of the blast was a police post located in front of the main gate of the university," Police Inspector Mushtaq Ahmed said, adding that an improvised bomb was used in the blast.

Police sources said that the IED was planted when coppers deployed at the post had gone for lunch.

"Two coppers, who were on duty at the post, bit the dust and three others suffered injuries in the blast," Inspector Ahmed said.

According to the bomb disposal squad, "around 2kg exp­losive was used in the IED". The dear departed coppers were identified as Muhammad Arshad and Tanveer Ahmed.
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