90 killed, over 260 injured in Pakistan
blasts
Friday January 11, 2013 08:56:09 AM,
IANS
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Islamabad: At least 90
people were killed and over 260 injured Thursday in four blasts -
three of them in Quetta - in Pakistan's Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
provinces Thursday.
At least 56 people, including a journalist and a senior police
official, were killed and over 160 injured as two back-to-back
bomb blasts hit Quetta in Balochistan province Thursday evening,
Geo News reported. Twelve people were killed in the same city in
an earlier blast.
There was a suicide attack at Rehmattullah Chowk late Thursday,
followed by another blast in the nearby Airport road area minutes
later, said police.
"The second bomb went off by the time rescue, media and law
enforcement officials reached the spot," said sources.
Police officers, mediamen, and rescue workers were among the
injured and the dead, said security sources. A senior police
official put the number of those injured at 163.
Earlier in the day, at least 12 people, including two children and
a security personal, were killed while 40 others sustained
injuries after a powerful bomb, planted next to a paramilitary
Frontier Corps checkpoint, ripped through Quetta' Bacha Khan Chowk
area.
At least 22 people were killed and 65 injured in a blast in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The blast, which was earlier perceived to be a cylinder blast, in
Swat district was actually of an improvised explosive device, Geo
News reported. Several of the wounded were in critical condition.
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