Kashmore: Landmine blast kills three in Bakhshapur

Kashmore: Landmine blast kills three in Bakhshapur
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Summary More than 30 people have been killed in different incidents of violence across Pakistan this week.

 

KANDHKOT (Web Desk) - At least three people, including a minor girl, were killed in a landmine blast in Kashmore district of Sindh,. Dunya News reported.

 

As per details, the incident took place near Bakhshapur town of Kashmore district.

 

Police arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. 

 

Earlier, a bomb blast that appeared to be targeting a provincial government minister killed 11 people and injured 24 others before dawn Wednesday in Lyari area of Karachi.

 

The bomb went off near the vehicle of provincial minister Javed Naghori, who was leaving after witnessing a late-night match between local teams in the Lyari neighborhood. Naghori escaped unharmed.

 

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

On Tuesday, police found the bodies of 13 people near the town of Machh, who were pulled off a convoy of buses in southwest Baluchistan province, shot dead and dumped in a ravine, officials said. A paramilitary soldier was also killed.

 

The motive for the attack late Monday night in Baluchistan province was unclear since no one claimed responsibility.

 

Elsewhere, Taliban gunmen killed three senior security officials in the same northern area where the militant group shot to death 10 foreign mountain climbers over a month ago.

 

The security officials were ambushed in their vehicle at around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning in Gilgit-Baltistan s Diamer district.

 

The dead included an army colonel, a captain and the district police chief, said Bhatti. Their vehicle plunged into a ravine after it was attacked, and authorities later recovered the bodies.

 

A Pakistani security official said the three men who were killed were investigating the attack on the foreign climbers. They were trying to convince locals to confirm some of the details of the attack and identify the militants involved, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

 

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