Terrorism case registered over deadly Mastung blast ‘targeting children, public’

The Quetta Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has registered a terrorism case over yesterday’s Mastung blast that claimed the lives of eight people, including five children, and injured over 30, it emerged on Saturday.

An improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a motorbike was used to carry out the attack at School-Hospital Chowk in the Majeed Road area, officials said.

The IED was detonated near a girls’ school where students were coming in vans and rickshaws at a time when a police vehicle was passing through the area.