Eight injured in Hub explosion

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KHUZDAR: At least eight people, including police and FC personnel, were injured in a blast in Balochistan’s industrial town of Hub late on Monday night.

Police said that the explosion occurred at a gas station in Hub.

After receiving information abo­ut the blast, security personnel rus­h­ed to the area and cordoned off for some time. The injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital.

The injured were identified as Karim Bakhsh, Zahoor Ahmed Magsi, Asif Ali, Ghulam Moham­mad, Police Constable Mohammad Sharif and FC officials Feroz, Sabir Ali and Mohammad Sadiq.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2020

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