According to official sources, unidentified persons had attached an bomb with a
cycle of violence and parked it in the main Chitkan Bazaar. They detonated it through a remote control when a vehicle of the FC was passing by the area.
Six civilians and nine security personnel received splinter wounds as a result of the blast.
Security forces cordoned off the area soon after the incident and took the injured to a nearby state-run hospital where one of the injured, identified as Abdul Hameed, pegged out.
The injured were identified as Aziz Ahmed, Habibullah, Sarwar, Waheed, Malik, Murad, Bilal, Atiqullah, Zahirullah, Bilawal, Abdul Haleem, Muhammad Jan, Asad, Muhammad Ashraf, Zakir Baloch and Muhammad Hameed. One of the injured is stated to be in a critical condition.
FC Inspector General, Ubaidullah Khan, strongly condemned the deadly blast and said some elements were playing in the hands of foreign elements to destabilise the province.
"People involved in these incidents only want to create law and order situation by targeting the people irrespective of their ethnicity," he stated in a statement issued here.