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Powerful bomb blast tore through Pak, injures 12
At least 12 people, including seven security personnel, were injured when a powerful bomb went off in a busy market in Pak.
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At least 12 people, including seven security personnel, were injured when a powerful bomb went off on Wednesday in a busy market area in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.
The bomb, planted in a bicycle, exploded when a truck carrying paramilitary troops was passing through the market in Mastung town, located about 50 kms from the provincial capital of Quetta, local officials said.
Five Frontier Corps personnel and two policemen were among the 12 people injured in the blast. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital.
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Police cordoned off the area and launched a search for those responsible for the attack.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
Such attacks are usually blamed on Baloch nationalists, who have waged an insurgency for a greater say in the exploitation of the province’s abundant natural resources.
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