Suicide bomber attacks school bus killing 5 people in Pakistan
發佈日期: 2025-05-22 10:33
TVB News
A suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people - including three children - and wounding 38 others, Balochistan province officials said.
The attack took place on the outskirts of the city of Khuzdar as the bus was taking children to their military-run school there.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but suspicion is likely to fall on ethnic Baloch separatists, who frequently target security forces and civilians in the region.
The province has been the scene of a long-running insurgency, with an array of separatist groups staging attacks, including the outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army, or BLA, designated a terror group by the United States in 2019.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack and expressed deep sorrow over the children's deaths. He called the perpetrators "beasts" who deserve no leniency, saying the enemy had committed an act of "sheer barbarism by targeting innocent children."
The military also issued a statement, saying the bombing was "yet another cowardly and ghastly attack" - allegedly planned by neighboring India and carried out by "its proxies in Balochistan."
There was no immediate comment from India.
