Roadside blast kills elite police in Quetta

A suicide bomber has killed at least seven police officers and wounded 22 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. The attack targeted a truck carrying police personnel on the city’s main Saryab road on Wednesday morning, local police official Muhammad Akbar said.  Provincial home minister Sarfaraz Bugti, speaking to media at the site […]

A suicide bomber has killed at least seven police officers and wounded 22 others in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta. The attack targeted a truck carrying police personnel on the city’s main Saryab road on Wednesday morning, local police official Muhammad Akbar said.  Provincial home minister Sarfaraz Bugti, speaking to media at the site of the attack, said those attacked were “elite” officers. Television footage from the scene showed the mangled and scorched wreckage of the truck lying by the side of the road. Police cordoned off the area around the blast site immediately following the attack.