QUETTA: Seven people, including a policeman, were killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a bomb blast near Girls High School at Civil Hospital Chowk in Mastung district of Balochistan on Friday.
According to police, five schoolchildren and a passer-by were among the dead, while most of the injured were schoolchildren.
Police and Rescue teams reached the site soon after the blast and shifted the injured and the dead to the DHQ Hospital.
Hospital sources said that the policeman and three chidlren were received dead, while three injured succumbed to their wounds during treatment.
A police mobile van has been completely destroyed in the blast while several other vehicles and rickshaws have been damaged.
The sound of the explosion was heard in nearby areas.
BALOCHISTAN CHIEF MINISTER CONDEMNS ATTACK
Meanwhile, Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti expressed his grief on the loss of life in blast.
In his message to the families of the policeman and the children the chief minister said that the killers would not be spared.
