QUETTA: At least five people have been killed and 12 sustained injuries in a blast that went off in a madrassah on Friday in Kuchlak town of the city.
The injured and dead bodies have been shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta.
According to police, the explosion was carried out through an improvised explosive device (IED) that was planted under the pulpit of the seminary.
The security forces cordoned off the area and started search operation while emergency has been declared in civil hospital
This is the fourth explosion that has taken place in Quetta over the past four weeks. On July 23, at least three people were killed and 18 were injured in a bomb attack in Quetta’s Eastern Bypass area.
On July 30, another attack took place near a police station in which five people were killed and 30 people were injured. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had claimed responsibility for that blast.
