QUETTA, Dec 29: Three persons were injured in a bomb blast in Nushki, some 150km to the west of Quetta, on Thursday night. The injured were shifted to a Quetta hospital for treatment. Some unidentified persons had planted the bomb near a hairdresser’s shop in Mal Adda Nushki Bazaar which went off at 8pm. Nasibullah, Abdur Rashid and Elahi Bakhsh suffered serious injuries as a result.

An official of the Nushki police station told Dawn that the injured belonged to Taunsa Sharif, Punjab. The local doctors referred them to the Quetta hospital.