26 November 2008

Seven injured in two Balochistan bomb blasts

QUETTA: At least seven people, including a female police constable, were injured in two separate bomb blasts in the Dera Murad Jamali and Dera Bugti districts of Balochistan on Tuesday.According to details, six people were injured in Dera Murad Jamali when a powerful bomb that had been fixed to a motorcycle, exploded outside the main gate of the local Session Court. Consequently, a female police constable Aysha Bibi and five others were injured. Two of the victims were critically injured and immediately shifted to Larkana for treatment. In a remote-controlled bomb blast in the Sui area of Dera Bugti district, Baloch militants tried to kill a former aide of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and his son. Though the father, Wadera Lal Mandarani, escaped the attack, his son, Shaukat Lal Mandarani, was hurt in the blast. Police said the blast had taken place in Mohammad Colony of Sui tehsil. The injured man was taken to a local hospital administered by Pakistan Petroleum Limited.
Baloch Republican Army spokesman Sarbaz Baloch claimed responsibility for the blast.
According to sources, two rockets exploded near the Dera Allahyar residence of Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti, a grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Bugti.Two rockets were fired on a police team chasing a vehicle of suspected people in Loralai. One rocket exploded in a dairy farm and the other in a field. Police found a large quantity of arms and ammunition in the abandoned vehicle

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