Pakistan Taliban Suicide Bomber Targets Police Patrol, 3 Killed & 25 Injured
A suicide bomber of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) blasted himself in Quetta, Pakistan. Consequently 3 people got killed & nearly 25 people got injured including 15 policemen.
On Wednesday, a police patrol in Quetta in southwest Pakistan was the target of a suicide bombing that left three persons dead and 28 injured, according to police.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant organization affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the explosion in a text message to Reuters this week after breaking a truce with the government.
According to a police official named Abdul Haq, “a bomb attack that targeted a police patrol injured more than 30 individuals, including 15 cops.” A police officer, a woman, and a child perished from them.
At the time of the suicide bombing, the patrol was watching over a polio vaccination team, he continued.
Islamist terrorists in Pakistan frequently attack polio vaccination workers because they think the campaign is an effort by the West to spy on them.
The capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan and is home to both Islamist and separatist rebels, is Quetta.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Taliban are distinct from the Taliban in Afghanistan, but they both adhere to a strong Islamist ideology.
The organization ordered the resumption of all assaults on Monday after declaring an end to a tenuous ceasefire with Islamabad that had been in place since the summer.
Azhar Mehesar, a senior police official, told AFP that the Quetta, Pakistan, blast was intended to murder “a policeman, a woman, and a child” and that the police squad was getting ready to accompany polio vaccine providers.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant organization affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the explosion in a text message to Reuters this week after breaking a truce with the government.
He added that when the suicide bomber detonated his bomb, the patrol was watching over a polio vaccination team.
Islamist terrorists in Pakistan frequently attack polio vaccination workers because they think the campaign is an effort by the West to spy on them.
