Seven injured in Chaman blast

Published April 23, 2014
CHAMAN: People gather at the site of a blast here on Tuesday.—PPI
CHAMAN: People gather at the site of a blast here on Tuesday.—PPI

QUETTA: Seven people, including a security man, were injured in a bomb blast in the border town of Chaman on Tuesday.

Police sources said unidentified people fixed an explosive device on a motorcycle parked outside a private on the Mall road. The bomb exploded when a vehicle of security personnel was passing through the area.

The sources said security personnel were the apparent target of the blast.

After the blast personnel of police and Frontier Corps rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the district hospital of Chaman.

According to sources in the hospital, two of the injured were stated to be in serious condition. Two vehicles were damaged and windowpanes of nearby buildings were smashed by the blast.

One of the injured was an Afghan national whose identity could not be ascertained. Others were identified as security official Mohammad Dawood, Bismillah Khan, Gohar Ashezai, Abdul Aziz, Himatullah and Abdul Majeed an Afghan national.

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