Two FC personnel injured in bomb blast

Published June 20, 2019
Two members of a security force were injured after a bomb attached to a motorcycle parked in a junk market of Panjgur town exploded on Wednesday. — INP/File
Two members of a security force were injured after a bomb attached to a motorcycle parked in a junk market of Panjgur town exploded on Wednesday. — INP/File

GWADAR: Two members of a security force were injured after a bomb attached to a motorcycle parked in a junk market of Panjgur town exploded on Wednesday.

Several shops and vehicles were damaged in the incident.

Levies officials said that unknown men had parked the motorcycle rigged with the bomb outside a shop in the junk market and it exploded when two FC personnel passed by it. A heavy contingent of law-enforcement agencies rushed to the area and took Naik Tariq and Constable Naseebullah to the district hospital.

Published in Dawn, June 20th, 2019

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