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DPO and six others injured in Jaffarabad bomb blast
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QUETTA: Seven people, including the District Police Officer (DPO), were injured in a remote-control bomb blast at a crowded bus station on Tuesday in Jaffarabad district, police said.
According to the police sources, a powerful remote control bomb blast in Jaffarabad’s bus station injured the District Police Officer (DPO), Syed Farid Ali, and injured six other civilians. The bomb had been fixed with a parked motorcycle and it exploded when the DPO was heading from his residence to the office. Besides injuring the DPO, the blast also left two policemen and four civilians injured. Many neighboring shops were also destroyed because of the blast. All the injured were shifted to district headquarters hospital in Jaffarabad for immediate medical treatment. Their condition was reported to be stable.
The Baloch Republican Army (BRA), an underground Baloch separatist group, has accepted responsibility for the bomb blast in Jaffarabad. The local Police said they were probing the matter and searching for the elements responsible for the bomb blast.
It was the third organized attack on the security forces in Balochistan in a single week. So far, four security personnel have been killed and around five have been injured in violence directed at the security forces.
Previously, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) had killed two army personnel in Khuzdar district on January 23 after opening indiscriminate fire on a group of soldiers in a crowded market in Khuzdar. In the second incident, the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), also an underground separatist organization, had accepted responsibility for targeting a convoy of the Frontier Crops (FC) in western Panjgur district on the Pak-Iran border. The blast in Panjgur on Monday had killed one FC official and injured three others. Tuesday’s attack on the police was the third attack on the law enforcement agencies in a single week for which the BRA accepted responsibility.
No arrests have been made so far. Baloch guerrilla fighters have intensified their operations in the wake of a cold war between the provincial government and the Frontier Corps while the provincial policemen have gone on a strike demanding an increase in salaries.
