| |
HUB: The blast at RCD Highway in Balochistan’s Hub town Thursday claimed 30 lives, while 30 others were wounded in the incident, sources said
Several injured have been admitted at hospitals of Karachi in a critical condition
According to reports suicide bomber detonated the bomb when a convoy of Chinese engineers was passing through the RCD Highway in Hub.
The vehicle carrying the Chinese however passed unscathed from the place, while four police mobile vans accompanying 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.
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.
The huge explosion also destroyed 15 vehicles and motorbikes and damaged 25 nearby houses and shops.
Thirty wounded persons were admitted at Karachi’s Civil Hospital, while three others were brought to Jinnah Hospital. Four wounded at the Civil Hospital were succumbed to their injuries, hospital sources said. |
ISSN 1563-9479 
