Four injured in Chaman bomb blast

Published August 12, 2014
CHAMAN: Security personnel and people gather at the site of an explosion here on Monday.—PPI
CHAMAN: Security personnel and people gather at the site of an explosion here on Monday.—PPI

QUETTA: Four people were injured in a bomb blast that occurred in the main bazaar of the border town of Chaman on Monday.

Police said unidentified men planted the time-device in a parked motorcycle in the Kandhari Bazaar. The blast was so powerful that it rocked the entire town.

“The possible target of the blast was the headquarters of a security agency,” a senior police officer said, adding, “four men received serious injuries in the blast.”

Three of the victims were rickshaw passengers passing through the area at the time of the blast and the fourth a shopkeeper, police said.

The FC and police personnel took the injured to the district hospital.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast.

Three of the injured were identified as Akhtar Mohammad, Najibullah and Faizullah.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2014

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