14 Police, FC personnel martyred in Quetta blast: Sarfraz Bugti

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Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti confirm that 13 police personnel and a Frontier Corp (FC) personnel martyred in a blast outside anti-polio vaccination centre in Satellite Town area of Quetta.

Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti told media that nature of the blast could not be determined however investigation was underway. He feared that blast was suicide attack.

SP Saryab, fourteen dead bodies were also brought to Quetta’s civil hospital. The dead could not be identified immediately however most of them were policemen deputed on the protection of teams. One passer by was also killed in the blast.

The officials fear that there could be more deaths in blast as five of the injured were said to be in serious condition.

It is also pertinent to be mentioned here that three-day anti-polio vaccination drive was started from Monday in Balochistan, FATA, KPK and Gilgit Baltistan. Over 5 million children were expected to be vaccinated in the campaign.