QUETTA, Nov 2: Seven people were killed and 15 others injured when two powerful landmines exploded in Nelegh area near Sui in Dera Bugti district on Friday.
“Five persons were killed on the spot when a wagon blew up after hitting a landmine,” a senior police officer said.
According to sources, the passenger wagon going to Nelegh from Sui town hit the landmine, some 35 km off Sui.
“The wagon was blown up and five people were killed and 13 others injured,” police said, adding that all the victims were going home after buying goods in the Sui Bazaar.
Soon after the incident, police and personnel of other law-enforcement agencies rushed to the area and removed the injured and the bodies to the Sui hospital where one of the injured died.
Hospital sources said that the condition of four other injured was serious and they were being shifted to a hospital in Rahimyar Khan.
Five of the victims were identified as Ali Hasan, Abdul Majeed, Haibat Khan, Uraz Mohammad and Abdul Rahim.
The sources said a child was killed and his parents were seriously injured in another landmine explosion in the same area. Karim Bakhsh was on his way home in Nelegh area when his son stepped over an anti-personnel mine which exploded.
“In both the explosions militants used local-made mines,” police sources told this correspondent, adding that a case had been registered and further investigation was in progress.
