By By Muhammad Ejaz Khan
Confirming the Spiny Road blast, police officials said a powerful bomb planted in a motorcycle went off at around 10:05 am. The explosion was so powerful that it was heard several kilometres away in the provincial capital. Some labourers were busy in construction of a nearby building while DIG Police (Operations) Nizam Shahid Durrani was entering his office when the explosion took place.
Police said one person Khan Muhammad was killed and seven others, including the DIG police, were wounded in the explosion. Four vehicles and windowpanes of nearby buildings were smashed.
Edhi and government ambulances rushed to the spot and started shifting the victims to hospitals. Emergency was declared in all the government hospitals of Quetta. It was a powerful remote control explosive device of five kilogrammes, which was planted in a motorcycle near the office of the DIG police on the Spiny Road, a Bomb Disposal Squad official told this correspondent.
The condition of three of the injured was stated to be critical. The police official sustained minor injuries and was discharged from the hospital after treatment. Later, Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani visited the site of the blast.
Meanwhile, two pylons of the Quetta Electric Supply Company were blown up in the Dasht area of the Mastung district. Qesco officials said two towers of 220 KV transmission line were blown up by unknown armed men in a subversive act. The towers were badly damaged but the power supply was not suspended. It will take, at least, one week to repair the towers.
Meanwhile, unidentified armed men attacked a police patrolling team in the Shalkot area on Monday night, injuring two policemen. Police said a team was on routine patrolling in the area when unidentified armed men attacked their vehicle with modern weapons. Two policemen sustained multiple injuries and were shifted to a local hospital.