QUETTA: A roadside bomb went off near a police office in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least two children and wounding 15 people, authorities said. Police said the injured included policemen and passersby.
Local police official Mujirbur Rehman stated that some of those injured were hospitalized in critical condition, saying that the bodies of the dead were also shifted to a nearby hospital. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast that took place in Pishin, a district in Balochistan province. However, suspicion is likely to fall on militants who have stepped up assaults on security forces and civilian people in recent months.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi also denounced the bombing in a statement and also mourned the slain children, adding those behind the assault “do not deserve to be called humans.”
