Suicide Blast Targeting School Bus Kills at Least 5, Including 3 Children, in Pakistan's Balochistan
- A suicide bomber targeted a school bus in Khuzdar, Pakistan, killing five individuals, including three children, and injuring 38 others, according to officials.
- Local Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal reported that the attack occurred while the bus was transporting children to an army-run school in Balochistan province.
- Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack as an act of 'sheer barbarism' and expressed deep sorrow over the loss of young lives.
- No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but suspicion falls on ethnic Baloch separatists, while the military accused 'Indian terror proxies' of involvement.
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Suicide bomber targets school bus in Khuzdar
At least five people – including three schoolchildren – were martyred and several others injured in a suicide attack targeting a school bus in Khuzdar early Wednesday morning, civil and military officials said. The suspected bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the school bus as it drove past Zero Point near Rakhshan Hotel, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said, adding that the bus was ferrying students to the Army Public School (…
Suicide bomber kills five on school bus in Pakistan's Balochistan
At least three children were among five people killed when a suicide bomber struck an army school bus in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, the military said on Wednesday, in an attack that Pakistan blamed on Indian proxies. Around 40 students were on the bus, which was headed to an army-run…
A suicide car bomber strikes a school bus in Pakistan, killing 5
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people — including three girls — and wounding 53 others, mostly children, officials said, the latest attack in tense Balochistan province.
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