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India-Pakistan
8 killed, 24 others wounded in blast targeting police vehicle in Quetta
2017-10-19
[DAWN] At least eight people, including seven coppers, were killed and 24 others injured in an kaboom targeting a truck carrying police officials in the Sariab Mill area of Quetta on Wednesday.

Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Abdul Razzaq Cheema said an investigation is underway to determine whether the blast was a suicide kaboom or whether an explosives-laden vehicle exploded remotely when the police truck was passing by, adding that the corpse count could increase.

The 35-strong contingent of elite coppers had been recently assigned patrol of various sensitive areas and were on their way to work on the Quetta-Sibi road when the kaboom took place, 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 Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti told DawnNews.

Bugti told AFP that a car rammed the police vehicle before catching fire, adding it was "apparently a suicide kaboom", in an account confirmed by.
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