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India-Pakistan
Four cops among 10 injured in Quetta blast
2011-01-30
[Pak Daily Times] Ten people including four coppers were maimed on Saturday when a car boom targeting the superintendent of police (SP) (Investigations) went kaboom! on Alamdar Road in Quetta, police said. However,
The infamous However...
SP Shahban remained uninjured in the blast.
Fail.
"Two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders were used in the blast," a police brass hat said.

The banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
grabbed credit for the blast and said SP Shahban was the target.

According to sources, the SP (Investigation) was going to work in an official police vehicle, when the blast occurred near his residence on Alamdar Road. As a result ten people, including four of his security guards and three children were maimed. The police, Frontier Corps and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the spot and took the injured to the Civil Hospital. They cordoned of the area and started collected evidence.

"The target was the SP (Investigations). Four of his security guards were maimed and the vehicle was partially damaged," DIG (Operations) Hamid Shakil said while talking to the media.

Talking to Daily Times, a police brass hat confirmed that kaboom was not used in the blast. "Two LPG cylinders were used to carry out the attack, and they were detonated through a remote controlled device."
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