Three people were killed and 28 others were injured in a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday in Quetta, Pakistan’s southwest city.
After the ceasefire with the government had ended this week, the Pakistani Taliban militant group or Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed the explosion.
Abdul Haq, a police officer, said to Reuters that a bomb explosion that hit a police patrol left more than 30 victims, 15 of them police officers. “One policeman, one woman, and one child were killed in the explosion,” he said.
He said that the patrol was guarding a team of polio vaccines at the time the suicide bomb occurred.
Islamist militants in Pakistan frequently target polio vaccination team members, believing that they are a Western spy tool.
Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province bordering Afghanistan or Iran is where Islamist and separatist rebels operate.
