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5 killed, 13 injured in blast in Balochistan’s Barkhan
2023-02-28
[Dawn] Five people were killed and 13 maimed in a kaboom inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s Barkhan on Sunday morning, police and health officials said.

Barkhan District Health Officer Dr Abdul Hameed confirmed the corpse count to Dawn.com, adding that the injured persons had been moved to the Rakhni Hospital.

"One of the injured has died during treatment. The number of dead has increased to five while 13 are injured. The condition of eight injured is critical and they have been shifted to Dera Ghazi Khan for medical assistance," he said.

According to Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Abdullah Khoso, the blast occurred when an improvised bomb (IED), planted on a cycle of violence, went kaboom!.

Khoso said the police have arrived at the site and cordoned it off. "Teams have begun collecting evidence from the site," he added.

Unverified videos making the rounds on social media show volunteers carrying bloodied victims away as a crowd gathers at the purported site of the blast. Mangled cycle of violences and charred vegetables can be seen strewn about on the road.

There was no claim of responsibility as yet.

The blast comes on the heels of attacks in KP and areas bordering Afghanistan. Since the talks with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP) broke down in November last year, the turban group has intensified its attacks while gunnies in Balochistan have also stepped up their violent mostly peaceful activities and formalised a nexus with it.
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