One police officer received martyrdom while three others got injured in a blast targeting a police vehicle in Qilla Abdullah district on Wednesday.
The injured included a police official. The explosives were reportedly planted on a motorcycle. The bodies and the injured were moved to a nearby hospital.
Police and Levies personnel rushed to the scene of the incident as the powerful explosion rocked the area. The law enforcement agencies initiated an investigation and gathered evidence from the site of the attack.
The incident happened at a time when Prime Minister Imran Khan was holding a meeting with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) provincial leadership in Quetta.
Pakistan has seen a consistent drop in terrorist violence since 2014 when the government had mounted a massive operation – codenamed Zarb-e-Azb – to cleanse the terrorists-infested regions along the border with Afghanistan. Zarb-e-Azb was followed by Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad in 2017 to eliminate the “residual/latent threat of terrorism” by disarming and eliminating the terrorist “sleeper cells” in the country’s urban centres.
