QUETTA: A Frontier Corps patrol escaped a bomb attack in Hazar Ganji area on Thursday. Two suspects were arrested after the incident.

The banned United Baloch Army (UBA) group claimed responsibility for the blast.

Police said a bomb placed in a garbage bin near Raisani road crossing on the outskirts of Quetta was detonated, apparently to hit an FC vehicle.

However, the vehicle escaped the attack as the explosion occurred only after the vehicle had moved out of its range.

“The target was the FC vehicle,” a senior police official said.

No one was injured.

Soon after the incident, police and FC personnel started investigation and security men took two suspects into custody for interrogation.

A spokesman for the UBA, Mureed Baloch, calling from an unknown place, told media personnel that his group had carried the attack in retaliation for the killing of three Baloch youths whose bodies were found in Karachi.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2014