At least four people including a child were killed while 13 others sustained injuries in an explosion outside Levies headquarters in the Pakistan-Afghanistan bordering town of Chaman in Balochistan on Tuesday, police officials said.
Officials said that the explosives were planted on a motorcycle and the apparent target was a police mobile stationed outside the Levies prison.
They further said that the bodies and injured have been shifted to Civil Hospital, Chaman. A large number of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) are present at the location and further investigation is under way, they added.
No group has thus far claimed responsibility for the attack.
In August last year, at least five people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and 21 others injured in a powerful bomb blast in Chaman.
As per the security officials, unknown miscreants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on a motorcycle parked on Mall Road near the District Police Officer (DPO) office.
Security officials said that the blast ripped through the congested Mall Road area of the border town.
“The blast was that of an IED, which was planted on a motorbike parked in front of a market,” a senior security official said, adding that the IED was detonated through a remote-controlled device.
“Five people were killed in the blast and 22 others, including two Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) personnel, injured in the powerful blast that rocked the entire Chaman town,” Chaman Assistant Commissioner Zakaullah Durrani said.
