A bomb blast occurred in Sibi, Balochistan, that killed five labourers and wounded two personnel of the Pakistani security forces. The blast reportedly occurred when a vehicle escorting the labourers ran over a mine planted on the side of the road. The labourers were reportedly going for a laying a water pipeline in the compound of the Frontier Corps.
According to the Deputy Commissioner of Sibi Zahid Shah, the mine blast occurred in an area called Tandoori, located at a 30-kilometre distance from Sibi city. He said that the vehicle was destroyed as a result and the five of the eight Pakistani labourers aboard were killed on the spot and two personnel of the Pakistani forces were critically wounded. The wounded were immediately shifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Sibi.
Shah identified four of the five dead labourers as Haider Ali, Usman Yousaf, Muhammad Bashir and Mazhar Hussain, all of the residents of Punjab.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Such attacks have been carried out in Sibi and its environs in the past, and the “pro-independence” armed group Baloch Liberation Army has been involved in many of them.