QUETTA: The death toll from the targeted suicide attack on a police truck in Quetta rose further as another child died during treatment hours after the bombing, taking the number of casualties to four.
A suicide bomber targeted a truck transporting policemen for the security of polio workers during the ongoing drive, in Quetta’s Baleli area this morning, killed a cop and a child on the spot, and reportedly left 26 including 23 cops wounded.
The death toll climbed as a woman and her child injured in the bombing succumbed to their injuries at different times, later in the day, the hospital administration shared. Both the deceased children were siblings, they added.
Earlier, the hospital administration had said that most of the injured are out of danger.
