DERA MURAD JAMALI: At least 12 people, including four policemen, were inju­red when a police van came under a bomb attack on Saturday.

The police van was patrolling the main bazaar of Manjho Shori town when it was targeted, SSP Nasir­abad Javed told Dawn. The condition of at least three victims was serious, he added.

Sources said that Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Dera Murad Jamali Inayatullah Bugti was patrolling the bazaar along with his colleagues when the explosion took place.

The injured included the DSP, three other policemen and a shopkeeper.

This was the second atta­­ck during the last three weeks in which police officials had been targeted.

Last month a police patrol vehicle was hit by a motorcycle bomb in which a dozen people, including two policemen were wounded.

How­ever, a young boy among the injured died later in a Karachi hospital.

Soon after the Saturday blast, police and Frontier Corps personnel shifted the victims to district hospital.

The three injured constables were Arbab Ali, Ghulam Ali and Saian Dad.

No one had claimed the responsibility for the attack while investigation was under way.

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2018