15 killed in Quetta suicide attack

QUETTA: At least 15 people, most of them police personnel, were martyred and 20 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack in Quetta’s Satellite Town on Wednesday morning.

Rescue sources said, the blast took place near police van close to a polio eradication centre in the area.

The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta, where emergency has been declared, rescue sources said.

At least 12 policemen, one paramilitary officer and two civilians were among the dead, with 20 others injured, officials said.

"It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, police chief in Balochistan, told Reuters. "The police team had arrived to escort teams for the polio campaign."

Senior police officer, DIG Imtiaz Shah, confirmed the toll from the suicide bombing. “We have found parts of the suicide bombers body from the location of the explosion,” he told Geo News.

The condition of eight is said to be critical.

Two police vehicles were damaged in the explosion.

The nature of the blast is not yet known.