(10 Apr 2023)
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Quetta, Pakistan - 10 April 2023
1. Various blast scene and aftermath, with bomb disposable squad collecting evidence and police at scene
2. Shattered glass on the ground
3. Scene of blast
4. Damaged police car with broken windows
5. Ambulances parked in hospital courtyard, relatives waiting
6. Various of wounded people receiving treatment
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Dr. Waseem Ahmed, Hospital Spokesperson:
"Fifteen wounded people were brought to the hospital from the blast scene. Staff are treating them, some of them were taken to the trauma center for further treatment, and some will be taken to the operation theatre if needed. So far we have received four dead bodies including two police officers, one girl and a civilian."
8. Various of relatives weeping outside mortuary
9. Staff moving dead body to ambulance
10. Ambulance carrying dead body leaving
STORYLINE:
A roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle in volatile southwestern Pakistan on Monday killed at least four people and wounded 15 others, mostly civilian pedestrians, a government spokesperson said.
The attack happened in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said Babar Yousafzai, a spokesman for the provincial government.
He said the dead included two officers and two civilians.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks across the country since November when they ended a monthslong cease-fire with the government.
Pakistan has also been battling an insurgency in Baluchistan for more than a decade, with separatists in the province demanding complete autonomy or a larger share of the province’s gas and mineral resources.
The Pakistani Taliban, who are known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), have claimed previous such attacks in Baluchistan and elsewhere. The militant group is separate from, but allied with, the Afghan Taliban.
The latest attack comes a day after the TTP shot and killed two police officers in Quetta. One of the assailants was also killed when police returned fire after coming under attack in the city Sunday night.
AP video shot by Khalil Ahmed
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