According to the military, a blast that targeted a school bus in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province killed at least five people, according to the military.
At least 38 people were hurt in the attack on Wednesday, according to government official Yasir Iqbal Dashti.
He told Al Jazeera, “The school bus belonged to Army Public School as it was picking kids when it was attacked by a suicide bomber.”
In a statement, Pakistan’s military criticized the violence and accused “Indian terror proxies” of being involved in the attack. It disregarded the evidence to back up the claim.
New Delhi did not respond right away.
The army said in a statement that the attack claimed the lives of at least three children and two adults.
Mohsin Naqvi, the interior minister, expressed “deep sorrow and grief” over the deaths of those who were killed in Khuzdar’s Zero Point area.
“Barbarity was used to attack innocent children by the enemy.” He claimed in a statement that the attack on the school bus is part of the enemy’s heinous plot to instill unrest in the nation.
According to authorities, the explosion’s severity could cause an increase in the death toll.
No immediate accusations of responsibility were made for the attack.
A decade-long conflict between the government and ethnic Baloch separatists, who demand secession from Pakistan, has been a source of conflict in Balochistan province, which is rich in minerals and natural resources.
Four people were killed in a car bombing near a market in Qillah Abdullah, also in Balochistan, on Wednesday, according to the attack.
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which Pakistan claims had India’s support, is responsible for numerous attacks in the province, which New Delhi refutes.
In one of the most deadly attacks in Balochistan, BLA fighters attacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers, killing 33 people, mostly soldiers.
The BLA stated earlier this week that it would continue to attack the “Pakistani army and its collaborators” and that it would lay the groundwork for “a peaceful, prosperous, and independent Balochistan.”
Separatists in the province of Balochistan regularly carry out attacks on schoolchildren, but these attacks have also been carried out in the restive northwest and elsewhere in the nation in recent years.
The government or the private sector runs the majority of Pakistan’s schools and colleges, but there are also many schools run by the military for both young people serving or retired from the army.
Source: Aljazeera
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