Pak journalist amongst 3 killed in bomb blast in restive Balochistan province | World News
Three individuals, together with a senior journalist, had been killed and eight others injured in a bomb blast that focused his car in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Friday, police mentioned.
A remote-controlled roadside bomb was planted close to Chomrok Chowk on the outskirts of Khuzdar city and when Maulana Siddique Mengal, a senior journalist and likewise the president of the Khuzdar Press Membership, reached the spot, the bomb was set off, a senior police official mentioned.
“Maulana Mengal and two different passersby had been killed within the blast, whereas eight others had been injured and brought to the hospital,” he mentioned.
A police official mentioned that it’s nonetheless too early to say whether or not Mengal was focused due to his media work or due to his work as a provincial workplace bearer of the JUI-F.
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti strongly condemned the assault and directed the Inspector Common of Police to arrest the culprits.
The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) additionally staged an indication towards the killing of Mengal and demanded that the provincial authorities ought to arrest the killers on the earliest.
Balochistan has been witnessing a sequence of terrorist actions for a number of years.
Most not too long ago, on Thursday no less than one died and 20 others had been injured in twin landmine blasts that occurred close to Thaikedar Naddi within the Duki district of Balochistan. The primary explosion occurred when a truck hit a landmine, adopted by a second blast as individuals gathered on the scene.
On Friday final, unknown assailants opened hearth within the Kali Tarata space of Pishin district and injured two senior law enforcement officials, together with a DSP and SHO. In an identical incident within the Tump space of the district, two labourers had been killed by armed males.
In 2023, Pakistan ranked 150 out of 180 nations on the World Press Freedom Index revealed by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), a non-profit that defends and promotes freedom of knowledge.
