QUETTA, June 21: At least seven people, including two Levies men, were killed and 15 others injured in a bomb blast, a landmine explosion and an attack in Balochistan on Thursday.

Two people died in the bomb explosion that took place at a ‘tablighi markaz’ (centre for religious instruction) near Farooqia mosque in Ghausabad, near Quetta. “The blast took place when people had gathered at the centre after offering Asr prayers,” a police officer said, adding that most of the worshippers had come from different areas of the country for attending a weekly congregation.

One person from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was killed on the spot and another died later in Civil Hospital, while 15 people were injured. Mohsin Shah and Inyatullah were killed in the incident.

Initial investigation showed that explosives had been placed in a bed that was lying by a pillar in the building. “We are investigating who had brought the bed into the tablighi centre,” a police official said.

It was the second bomb blast in the provincial capital in four days. On Monday, a suicide car bomb blast had hit a bus of the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, leaving four people dead and 72 others injured.

Two personnel were killed and another injured in an armed attack on a Levies ‘thana’ in the remote Nag area of Washik district.

According to official sources, the attack took place early in the morning and Dafidar Naseer Ahmed and Constable Muhammad Yousuf were killed.

The attackers also took away weapons and other items from the Levies station, Washik Deputy Commissioner Dr Saeed Jamali said.

In Dera Bugti district, Muhammad Irfan, Hafeezullah and Ahmed of Bugti tribe were killed when their motorcycle hit a landmine in Pat Feeder area, Levies sources said.—Saleem Shahid