Twenty-two people were killed in a bomb attack on two buses carrying Shia pilgrims returning from Iran in Mastung area of Balochistan on Tuesday night.
According to a Quetta based journalist Shahzada Zulfiqar, district officials said that the explosion was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the roadside on the main Quetta-Iran highway.
The front of one of the buses came in contact with the IED setting off the explosion. A Bomb Disposal Squad is on its way to the location of the blast in Dareen Garh area of Mastung which is 55 km from Balochistan’s capital city.
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About 26 people were injured and some missing. Security personnel escorting the buses were also killed in the blast apart from several women and children.
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