Pakistani security officers killed in an explosion claimed by the Baloch separatist | News
Dozens of paramilitary forces were wounded in an explosion in the Noshki district in Balochistan, for days after the abduction of deadly trains.
A road explosion on a road near a bus transporting security forces at the Balochistan Province of Pakistani Province killed at least five officers and wounded dozens, police said. The attack comes less than a week after A deadly incident that makes it difficult to train In the southwestern province.
Balokistan’s liberation army (BLA) On Sunday, he took responsibility for the Noshki district in Balochistan. The separatist group was also behind the abduction of the train in which dozens were killed.
The senior police supervisor for Noshki County, Hashim Momand, said that more than 30 members of the paramilitary forces were wounded in Sunday’s attack.
Another police official, Zafar Zamanani, said the explosion badly damaged another bus nearby. Dead and wounded were transported to a nearby hospital.
Balochistan Minister Sarfraz Bugti condemned the attack and expressed sadness for loss of life. “Those playing with Balochistan peace will be led to a tragic region,” Bugti said in an official press release.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the attack, which comes while Pakistan deals with a growing security crisis in his regions bordering Afghanistan.
Kamal Hyder Al Jazeera said the local sources had told Al Jazeera that the attack was carried out on a convoy of at least eight buses transporting safety staff from Noshki to Taftan, near the border with Iran.
“There was a improvised explosive device first and then volleyball from the attacker. Local sources say they are afraid that the number of deaths can be climbed,” he said, reporting from the capital of Islamabad.
Independence from Pakistan
The incident comes less than a week after blah ambush Jaffar ExpressHe took about 400 people on board and killed 26, including soldiers, before the security forces launched surgery and killed all 33 attackers.
Pakistan claimed on Friday that the train abduction was spent last week by “terrorists” who communicated with “executives in Afghanistan”, claiming that India was mainly behind her.
“We need to understand that in this terrorist incident in Balochistan and to others before, the main sponsor is the Eastern neighbor [India]”Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, Director General for Military Wing for Public Relations (ISPR), said during a press conference in Islamabad.
Balochistan has been struggling with a lack of security for decades. There are several armed groups in the region, including blah, which seeks complete independence of Balochistan from Pakistan. Since 2006, the group has banned Pakistan and the United States, indicating it as a “terrorist” organization.
Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan, home to about 15 million people. But despite his enormous resources, he remains widely underdeveloped. Balocha people make up 3.6 percent of Pakistan’s population.
The inhabitants of Ethnic Baloch have long accused the central government of discrimination – the accusation of Islamabad denies.
In the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which lies north of Balokistan, and shares the border with Afghanistan, the provincial Chief Minister, but Amin Gandapur, condemned a number of attacks on the police throughout the province.
He did not provide the victims’ numbers, but Pakistani Talibani, known for his Akronoma TTP, said there were 16 attacks in the past 24 hours.
At least two police officers and a private security guard were killed in separate attacks overnight in the districts and pešavar in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police said on Sunday.
In the last few years the country has seen Increasing the attackincluding those claimed by TTP, which is ideologically aligned with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Last year, there were more than 1500 deaths in the country because of these attacks.
The Talibans denied any role in the attacks.
