QUETTA: A traffic policeman and four children were among the nine people injured when a locally made explosive device detonated on Quetta’s Zarghoon Road near the Civil Secretariat and Commissioner Office, law enforcement agency and government officials said on Wednesday.
The senior superintendent of police (SSP) operations shared that the blast had occurred in a garbage dump under a bridge on Zarghoon Road. He added that further investigations regarding the blast are underway, Geo News reported.
The SSP shared that the four children injured in the blast were ragpickers.
Commissioner Quetta Division Muhammed Hamza Shafqaat, in a post on X, urged citizens to avoid the Zarghoon Road for the next few hours.
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