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Quetta blast: Video captures moment of explosion targeting Pakistan Army personnel at Balochistan railway station | World News

Quetta blast: Video captures moment of explosion targeting Pakistan Army personnel at Balochistan railway station | World News

At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in Pakistan’s Balochistan on Saturday, Reuters reported, citing police. The blast took place inside a Quetta railway station when the Peshawar-bound express was about to leave for its destination. A CCTV camera footage, posted by Sputnik India, showed the moment the bomb blast took place, reportedly targeting Pakistan Army soldiers. Note: Disturbing visuals. Viewers’ discretion is advised Pakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants in the south and Islamist militants in its northwest. Inspector general of police for Balochistan, Mouzzam Jah Ansari, said 24 people have died from the blast so far. “The target was army personnel from the Infantry School,” he said, with many of the injured in critical condition. “So far 44 injured people have been brought to civil hospital,” Dr. Wasim Baig, a hospital spokesman, told Reuters. Senior superintendent of police operations, Muhammad Baloch, said the blast seemed to be a suicide bomb and that investigations …

At least 15 people killed in rebel attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan | World News

A separatist militant attack in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan region late on Monday left at least 15 people dead, including two civilians and four law enforcement agents, the Pakistani military said in a statement. Pak forces at the site of the militant attack. Militants, including suicide bombers, attacked Mach and Kolpur complexes in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the Pakistan military’s Inter Services Public Relations agency (ISPR) said. At least nine militants including three suicide bombers were killed, it said. HT has launched it’s new Cricket page. Click here to know more! “Security forces in the vicinity were immediately mobilised who are carrying out ensuing operation,” ISPR said. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the most prominent of several separatist groups in the southwestern province of Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. READ | At least 3 people killed, 5 injured in bomb blast at Imran Khan’s rally in southwestern Pakistan The group aims to achieve independence for mountainous and mineral-rich Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by territory but the smallest in terms of population, which has …