Tag: Explosion

QUETTA - Five persons including two women were killed and twenty two others received injuries in a land mine explosion and an armed attack in Dera Bugti area on Wednesday. According to reports, a pick-up carrying a family from Sui to Pir Koh area rolled on a land mine in Patar Nulla. The resulting explosion killed 4 including two women and eighteen others, of which one passed away. The injured were shifted to PPL hospital at Sui town. The deceased were identified as Jungyan, Laalan,

QUETTA - Two children were injured in a toy bomb explosion in Quetta's suburbs on Monday. According to police, Attaur Rehman was playing with his sister Bilqees, 6, near his house located at Kirani Road when they found a hard object and started playing with it. Resultantly, the object exploded and seriously injured both the children who were later shifted to a hospital. Police spotted an improvised explosive device (IED) attached with an electric pylon at Kirani Road and called the

LAHORE - A CNG gas cylinder, installed in a Toyota van, exploded during filling of gas in the precincts of the Chung police station here on Saturday, resulting in the death of three people including a youngster. In addition, twelve people including two women sustained serious injures.
The deceased were identified as Youhana (30), Faqir Muhammad (35) and Ubaid ur rehman (10), whereas the injured women were Bilquis (30) and Suraya (40). Details reveled that the incident happened in

PESHAWAR - A bomb explosion at a cattle market in Charsadda killed a man and wound two people on Wednesday. Police said some miscreants had fixed explosive material on a donkey-cart which exploded causing death of the man driving the cart while two bystanders were injured. A large number of people were present at the Wednesday Cattle Fair at the local cattle market near Qazi Khel Bridge when the incident took place.

BUCHAREST - An explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Romania, killing five miners at a depth of some 400 metres (1,000 ft) below ground, authorities said late on Saturday. A rescue team found the bodies of the miners, between 30 and 35 years old, who had been working to repair a power transformer, Dan Buhaescu, mayor of the town of Uricani, was quoted as saying by news agency Agerpres.
Mining was once a thriving industry employing almost half a million people in Romania

QUETTA - An official from the Frontier Corps was killed in a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti and a vehicle of Uchh gas field escaped a bomb attack in Jaffarabad district on Sunday. According to report FC personnel Sibtain Shah was on his way home within the jurisdiction of Pir Koh when he suddenly stepped on a landmine.
He sustained critical wounds in the blast and was shifted to the PPL hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. In another incident, a vehicle carrying

QUETTA - Two Bugti tribesmen were killed in a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan on Sunday. According to Levies officials, a landmine laid by unknown militants in Gandari near Loti area of Dera Bugti exploded with a huge explosion when two persons riding a motorbike rolled on it. As a result, both were killed on the spot.
Soon after the blast Levies and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the site and shifted victims to hospital where they were

QUETTA - Five people, including two women, were burnt in an explosion caused by gas leakage in a house on Quetta's Raisani Road on Monday. Police said explosion occurred when a woman lit a matchstick in a room filled with gas that caused the explosion injuring Paind Khatoon, Khadeeja, Hayat, Naimat Ullah and Naeem. The Injured were shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex

CHARSADDA - Five people including two policemen were injured when a planted bomb at a compact discs (CD) shop went off in Charsadda bazaar on Friday.
Reportedly, the shopkeeper called the police when he saw a planted bomb at CD distributors market. The police reached the spot and tried to defuse the bomb but the explosive material went off injuring five people including two policemen.
The injured people were out of danger, sources in the hospital said.