QUETTA: Deadly suicide blast in Quetta, Death toll rises further as per thelatest media reports.
Over 20 people were killed and over 45 others were injured in a suicideattack targeting members of the minority Shia Hazara community in Quetta’sHazarganji market on Friday.
The attack claimed the lives of nine Hazara and one Frontier Corps (FC)soldier who was deputed for the community’s security, Deputy InspectorGeneral (DIG) Abdul Razzaq Cheema told reporters. The 10 others who losttheir lives included shopkeepers, businessmen and citizens working orresiding in the area. Four FC soldiers were among the injured.
DIG Cheema said the blast targeted the Hazara ethnic community.
However, Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langove, who held a pressconference later in the day, said that the blast was not targeting “aspecific community”.
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“Our guess is that no specific community was targeted. Marri Baloch and FCpersonnel were among those killed as well. The numbers of the Hazaracommunity were just greater,” Langove said.
He also described the blast as a suicide attack.
Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned “the terrorist attack” and sought “animmediate inquiry and increased security for the [targeted] people”.
