QUETTA: Bomb blast in Turbat

Published January 3, 2005

QUETTA, Jan 2: An explosive device went off in the early hours of Sunday damaging the boundary wall of the headquarters of Makran Scouts in Turbat town.

No casualty was reported. Sources said that the locally-made device exploded at 2am.

Meanwhile, a man identifying himself as Col Doda made phone calls to newsmen at the Quetta Press Club saying that the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) was responsible for the Turbat blast. "The BLA accepts responsibility for this blast," he said and added that such acts would continue till the acceptance of their demands.

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