Army Public school bus targeted 4 killed, several injured

Three children among five were killed and several others injured on Wednesday morning when an Army Public School bus targeted with a bomb explosion in Khuzdar, Balochistan.

“As per the initial reports, three innocent children and two adults have embraced martyrdom and multiple children have sustained injuries,” the press release by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated.

“After having miserably failed in the battlefield, through these most heinous and cowardly such like acts, Indian proxies have been unleashed to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,” the ISPR said.

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In a statement on X, the interior ministry condemned the attack allegedly carried out through a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED).

According to the Khuzdar deputy commissioner, the blast school bus targeted occur when the school bus was near the district’s Zero Point. The deceased and the injured were shifted to a nearby hospital and will be referred to medical facilities in Karachi and Quetta, he added.

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