Islamabad: A bomb blast injured at least seven bus passengers in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district yesterday morning, according to a Levies official here.
The Levies official told local media that militants targeted the passenger bus through a remote-controlled bomb in Khuzdar district’s Garisha area.
The official said that the explosion was the result of a roadside bomb to target the bus coming from Turbat.
Local people rushed the injured passengers to Civil Hospital Khuzdar.
There were no rescue workers to help the injured.
The condition of two of the injured passengers was said to be critical.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Khuzdar is considered one of the most sensitive districts of Balochistan where militants have been targeting security forces and national installations for more than a decade.
Worsening law and order situation has forced hundreds of families to migrate from Khuzdar to different parts of Balochistan and Sindh.
Terrorism in Pakistan has become a major and highly destructive phenomenon in recent years.
The annual death toll from terrorist attacks has risen from 164 in 2003 to 3318 in 2009, with a total of 35,000 Pakistanis killed between September 11, 2001 and May 2011.
According to the government of Pakistan, the direct and indirect economic costs of terrorism from 2000–2010 total $68bn.
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