According to SSP Operations Captain (retd) Zohaib Mohsin, the target of the blast was a police vehicle.
“The explosives were planted in a motorcycle,” he said, adding that the injured also included women and children.
SSP Mohsin said the injured were immediately transferred to Civil Hospital Quetta for medical treatment.
The condition of two of the injured was deemed critical, he added.
“According to initial information, three to four kilos of explosives were used in the blast,” the police official said. “Due to the blast, two vehicles, including the police van, were damaged.”
TV footage showed a damaged police automobile surrounded by a number of personnel. Several ambulances were also seen leaving the site of the explosion.
A day earlier, two cops were martyred and one was injured in an attack by unknown assailants in the Killi Spine area of the Kuchlak district.
The policemen, who belonged to the Eagle Squad, were patrolling on a motorcycle when the assailants opened indiscriminate fire, leaving three injured. Quetta DIG Ghulam Azfar Maheser had confirmed that the cops were targeted by terrorists.
