A
suspected Afghan bomb-maker and four members
of his family were killed when an explosive
device he was building blew up in their home
on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the Balochistan
province, on April 25, according to Daily
Times. The man’s wife, mother-in-law, brother
and three-year-old son died in the blast, province
police chief Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob said.
His second wife and another son aged 13 were
injured and the roof of the house collapsed
after the blast, he added. The suspect, Afghan
national identified as Kamaluddin, was wanted
by police following intelligence reports that
some saboteurs had entered Pakistan for subversive
activities, Yaqoob said.
Meanwhile,
suspected insurgents blew up railway bridge
No 31 in the Babarkatch area of Harnai destroying
a 136-feet section of the rail track.
Further,
the insurgents also fired seven rockets at security
check posts in the Kohlu area on April 25, but
no loss of life or property was reported. Separately,
a landmine blast in Pir Koh damaged a water
tank.
Elsewhere
in the province, security forces arrested six
suspected insurgents from Pir Koh and seized
an unspecified quantity of explosives from them. |
