QUETTA: One person was killed and four others injured — one of them seriously — in a bomb explosion in a vehicle in the provincial capital on late Sunday evening.

Police said the blast took place in a car at a bus terminal on the Brewery Road area of western bypass. Sources said that it was a magnetic bomb, attached to one of the doors of the car, that exploded when the vehicle reached at the last stop on the Brewery Road.

“A man who was driving the vehicle killed on the spot while another person travelling in the vehicle injured seriously in the powerful blast,” senior police officer Mehmood Kharoti said. Three passers-by were also injured.

The injured were shifted to the Bolan Medical College (BMC), Quetta. “We have received one body and four injured,” a hospital spokesperson said, adding that the condition of one of the injured, identified as Nabeel, is critical. The deceased was identified as Hussan Ali Muhammad Hasni.

Police said it was a targeted attack, in which a magnetic bomb was detonated remotely.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Published in Dawn, June 2nd, 2025