Islamabad, May 21 (UNI) Five people, including three students, were killed and several others injured when terrorists attacked a school bus in Pakistan’s Khuzdar district of southwestern Balochistan province on Wednesday, an official said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, condemned the terrorist attack on “the innocent school-going children’s bus,” vowing to hunt down the “planners, abettors and executors” of the attack and bring them to justice.
Khuzdar Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said that at least five people were killed and 40 others injured, including students and staff members, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near the school bus in zero point area of the district, media reported.
Eyewitnesses in the area told local media that the bus was completely destroyed after the powerful explosion.
Following the explosion, rescue teams and law enforcement agencies reached the scene and shifted the injured to nearby hospitals, local media reported.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the bombing targeting the school bus.
