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Bomb explodes outside police station in Pak, no casualties
Karachi, Nov 28: A bomb exploded outside a police station in southern Pakistan, shattering the windows of several nearby homes and shops, but causing no injuries, police and residents said today.
Karachi, Nov 28: A bomb exploded outside a police station in southern Pakistan, shattering the windows of several nearby homes and shops, but causing no injuries, police and residents said today.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for yesterday's explosion in Jacobabad, a small city about 400 kilometers northeast of the port city of Karachi, said Bahadur Hassan, a police official.
He gave no other details and only said the police were still investigating. Residents said the bomb exploded at a police station about 2 kilometers from Jacobabad Air Base, one of Pakistan's largest. The base was used by US troops to back anti-terrorism operations in neighboring Afghanistan.
``After the explosion, security forces surrounded the area and blocked all roads leading to Jacobabad Air Base,'' said Liaquat Barohi, a local resident.
No other details were available and police had made no arrest. In an apparently unrelated attack, six rockets slammed into an empty farm field in a remote village in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported.
Police said they were still trying to determine who was behind the latest attack in Kolhu, 100 kilometers east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province which has witnessed several terrorist attacks in the recent months.
Bureau Report
He gave no other details and only said the police were still investigating. Residents said the bomb exploded at a police station about 2 kilometers from Jacobabad Air Base, one of Pakistan's largest. The base was used by US troops to back anti-terrorism operations in neighboring Afghanistan.
``After the explosion, security forces surrounded the area and blocked all roads leading to Jacobabad Air Base,'' said Liaquat Barohi, a local resident.
No other details were available and police had made no arrest. In an apparently unrelated attack, six rockets slammed into an empty farm field in a remote village in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Wednesday, but no casualties were reported.
Police said they were still trying to determine who was behind the latest attack in Kolhu, 100 kilometers east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province which has witnessed several terrorist attacks in the recent months.
Bureau Report