 [GEO.TV] A powerful explosion near Zero Point in Khuzdar, 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...
, targeted a school bus on Wednesday, martyring five, including three students, and injuring dozens of others, the province's chief minister said, drawing condemnations from across the country.
Terrorists targeted the school bus as it was heading towards the educational institute with more than 40 students on board in the district of Balochistan, which is among the worst terror-hit provinces.
Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti told news hounds that the five martyred, including three children, the bus driver, and his assistant, while those critically injured were being transported via air to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Quetta. Khuzdar's deputy commissioner said that more than 30 individuals sustained injuries in the blast.
Separately, fourteen individuals injured in the terrorist attack were transferred to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Quetta. Among them are a woman, a man, and twelve children. The CMH administration has said that some of the injured are at death's door.
The government has said that Indian-backed murderous Moslems carried out the attack, coming almost two weeks after the two sides settled a ceasefire to end their most serious conflict in decades.
Security sources identified three of the martyred as grade six student Sania Soomoro, grade seven's Hifza Kousar, and grade 10's Esha Saleem.
The military's media wing, in a statement, said: "In yet another cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by [the] terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan, [an] innocent school-going children bus was targeted today in Khuzdar." 
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