Police cordoned off the area and shifted the injured to the civil hospital for treatment. — Photo by Reuters

QUETTA Three people, including two policemen, were killed and 14 others were wounded in a blast in Quetta on Sunday. The target of the blast was a police officer's vehicle.

The blast took place as an explosive device planted in a bicycle went off on the city's Kuwari Road when the police vehicle passed by it.

The vehicle is stated to be of a district police officer stationed in Khuzdar, who was not present in the vehicle.

Police and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the site soon after the blast. They cordoned off the area and shifted the injured to the civil hospital for treatment. — DawnNews

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