Yesterday, a suicide bomber set off explosives near a checkpoint in southwestern Pakistan, which is a dangerous area. The blasts killed at least three security guards and hurt fifteen others.
A senior police officer named Azhar Akram said the attacker went to the Frontier Corps station on Quetta Mastung Road, which is about 25 kilometers south of Quetta, which is the capital of Balochistan province. it was said that his body was found not far from the security spot after the bombing. Akram said that some of the hurt are in very bad shape and that the number of deaths is expected to go up.
At first, no one claimed credit for the bombing this morning, but Baloch separatist groups have said they did it. He said he was behind attacks like this on the security troops.
Baloch Liberation Army and Baloch Liberation Front, two groups that are against the law, have been leading a low-level insurgency for almost 20 years to demand that the gas and mineral-rich area be free from British rule. There are also Islamic extremists living in the area.
Baluchistan is an important province in southwestern Pakistan. It borders both Iran and Afghanistan and is where China is working on projects for the China-Pakistan industrial corridor. It cost billions of dollars to build roads, power plants, and improve farming land as part of the projects.
In the past few years, China has also been very important in the growth of the port in the deep seas of the Arabian Sea at Gwadar. But Pakistanis and Chinese working on economic route projects have been attacked in the area.
In the port city of Gwadar last month, a suicide bomber set off two bombs near a car carrying Chinese workers. The blasts killed two Pakistani children playing on the side of the road and hurt one Chinese person and two other Pakistanis.
Separatists are thought to have thrown a grenade at a shop in Quetta that sold national flags last month, killing one man and hurting four others who were there to buy flags for Pakistan’s Independence Day.
