School children among 7 killed in Mastung blast

QUETTA: At least seven people including school children were killed and 15 people were injured in the blast in Mastung district, Balochistan.

According to the police, a bomb blast took place at Girls High School Civil Hospital Chowk in Mastung, injuring 15 people, mostly school children.

The police say that the police mobile was targeted in the blast, but the school van was also hit by the blast, as a result of which three school children and a policeman were killed, and the injured were shifted to DHQ hospital.

Later, three more person injured in the blast died in the hospital while being treated, after which the death toll rose to 7, including five school children, a policeman and a passerby.

Police officials said that the police mobile was completely destroyed in the bomb blast, while other vehicles and rickshaws were also damaged.

Balochistan Government Spokesman Shahid Rind condemned the bomb blast near the school in Mastung and said that the report has been sought from Home Department Balochistan.

The spokesman of the provincial government said  that the district administration, bomb disposal squad and security forces are present at the spot, the nature of the explosion is being determined.

Shahid Rind said that evidence is being collected from the place of the incident while doctors and medical staff have been summoned by imposing an emergency in the hospitals.

The spokesperson of Balochistan Health Department said that in view of the Mastung blast, an emergency has been declared in Civil Hospital, Bolan Medical Complex Hospital and Trauma Center in Quetta.

Acting President Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned a bomb blast at a girls’ high school in Balochistan’s Mastung district, killing children and a policeman.

In their separately issued messages, they expressed grief over the death of children and a policeman and conveyed their condolence to the bereaved families, also praying for strength for them to bear the loss.

Both the acting president and prime minister reiterated the resolve for continuous action against terrorism till its elimination in terrorists .

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Prime Minister Shehbaz instructed the authorities concerned to apprehend the perpetrators of the blast and take them to task, besides directing the best possible medical treatment of the injured.