Our Correspondent
Quetta
At least four people were injured in a blast outside a mosque on Quetta’s Sariab Road on Friday, police said. The wounded were shifted to the Civil Hospital for treatment. The incident took place after Friday prayers.
A video showed worshippers coming out of the mosque as an explosion was heard and plumes of smoke rose from a motorcycle on fire.
Quetta Deputy Inspector General Abdul Razzaq Cheema said the nature of the explosion could not be immediately ascertained and police were investigating if explosives were planted on a bike or if the vehicle caught fire.
But another police official told media that 1-1.5 kilogrammes of explosive material was left in a bag next to a motorcycle parked outside the mosque. He said the blast was caused after the detonator blew up but the explosives themselves didn’t catch fire.
