Six injured as blast hits Quetta's Airport Road

QUETTA: At least six security officials were injured after a blast struck Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan on Thursday, ARY News reported.

According to Balochistan’s Home Minister, Mir Ziaullah Langove, the blast took place on Quetta’s Airport Road.

Talking to the media, Ziaullah Langove said that the explosive material was planted in a motorcycle parked closed to the vehicle of security forces patrolling the area.

“Four to five kilograms of explosive material was used in the bomb. Six security officials were injured in the blast,” he told media.

The home minister further said that India was using Afghanistan’s soil to conduct attacks in Pakistan.

On getting information, a heavy contingent of police personnel reached the scene of the blast and cordoned it off to collect evidence.

A bomb disposal squad was also called in with a search operation launched in the area. The injured and bodies were shifted to the hospital. The provincial government also imposed emergency in Civil Hospital Quetta and other nearby hospitals.

Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal has condemned the blast and summoned a report from the authorities concerned.

This is the fourth explosion reported in Quetta city in the last three months. At least five people, including a security official, got injured in a blast on Quetta’s Qambrani road on May 24.