News8 policemen among 30 killed in Hub suicide attack
HUB: The blast at RCD Highway in Balochistan’s Hub town Thursday claimed 30 lives including eight policemen, while over 30 were wounded in the incident, sources said
Police have announced Rs 3,00,000 assistance and jobs for the families of eight deceased policemen.
According to reports a bomb was planted in a car parked at the RCD Highway in Hub. The bomb went off when a convoy of Chinese engineers was passing through the area, reports said.
The vehicle carrying the Chinese however passed unscathed from the place, while four police mobile vans behind the convoy were caught in the blast. After the blast the panic-stricken security guards of Chinese engineers and policemen opened indiscriminate firing killing and wounding several nearby people.
Twenty-six wounded persons were admitted at Karachi’s Civil Hospital, while three others were brought to Jinnah Hospital. Four wounded at the hospitals were succumbed to their injuries and eight others were in a critical condition, hospital sources said.
Eight policemen were also killed in the attack, Tehsil Nazim Abdul Jamil Gichki told Geo News.
The huge explosion also destroyed 15 vehicles and motorbikes and damaged 25 nearby houses and shops.
Thirty persons including policemen and passersby were killed in the blast, sources said. According to police, the deceased have been identified as Maula Bakhsh, Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Ilyas, Zafarullah, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim, Mashooq Ali, Ataullah, Muhammad Musa, Mian Khan, Akhtar Hussain, Arbab, ASI Abdul Sattar Lassi and constables Enayatullah Lassi, Muhammad, Muhammad Hanif and Muhammad Hassan. The identities of remaining deceased yet to be established.
DIG Police southern region Balochistan Ghulam Qadir Thebo has called the explosion a suicide attack. He said the heavy bomb with such big weight could only be carried and detonated in a vehicle.
He announced Rs 3,00,000 assistance for each family of the deceased eight policemen. He also announced to provide jobs to the children of dead policemen.
Courtesy Geo