At least eight people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed while 29 others were injured on Friday in a remote-controlled blast targeting a police van in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.
The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a girl’s high school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province.
Terrorists used a remote control device to detonate explosive material hidden in a parked motorbike, officials said.
“It was an IED (improvised explosive device) used in the blast, and the target apparently was a police mobile parked near the school,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai said.
The IED detonated when the police mobile came close to it, and a school van was caught in the mayhem. The police van and several auto-rickshaws were also damaged in the explosion.
