Four police officers among the dead in suicide car bombing in Pakistan
Quetta — A suicide car bomber killed at least 11 people, including four police officers, in an attack near a checkpoint in the volatile southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, officials said. Abdul Razzaq Cheema, director general of police in Baluchistan province, said it appeared the bomber had detonated a car packed with explosives. At least 11 bodies were taken to hospital, along with 19 wounded people, said Wasim Baig, a spokesperson for the Civil Hospital in Quetta. Four of those killed were police officers, while nine security officials were among the wounded, said Fareed Sumalan, a doctor at the Civil Hospital. Baluchistan government spokesman Anwar ul-Haq Kakar said the blast happened near the office of the inspector-general of police when officers stopped the car to search it near a checkpoint. "It’s possible the inspector-general office was the target, or the assailants were trying to enter the [army] cantonment, which is close by," he said. Television footage sho...
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