(21 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Khuzdar – 21 May 2025
1. Mid of student book
2. Student shoe
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Quetta – 21 May 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sarfaraz Bugti, Chief Minister of Baluchistan:
“First of all, I strongly condemned this incident, and I want to say that children are innocent and in any kind of war, be it tribal, international or any other kind of war, the children among them are the once who are vulnerable to it.”
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Khuzdar – 21 May 2025
4. Wide of area
5. Various of aftermath, including blood stains on rocks
6. Wide of area
7. Damage to window
STORYLINE:
A suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people — including at least three children — and wounding 38 others, officials said.
It was the latest attack in a tense Balochistan province.
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.
A local official said the attack took place on the outskirts of the city of Khuduzar as the bus was transporting children to their military-run school there.
Troops quickly arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area while ambulances transported the victims to hospitals in the city.
Footage by the Associated Press showed scattered debris, which included student books and a pair of shoes.
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.
Sarfaraz Bugti, Chief Minister of Baluchistan, condemned the attack and expressed sadness over the children’s deaths.
Officials, who initially reported that four children were killed but later revised the death toll to say two adults were also among the dead, said they fear the toll may rise further as several children were listed in critical condition.
AP video by Muhammad Iqbal Mengal
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