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Pak: Car bomb targets Frontier Corps, several dead in Balochistan
The Statesman Kolkata
|May 20, 2025
Sources stated that the target of the attack was also a tribal warlord Faizullah Ghabizai
A car bomb explosion in Gulistan Area of Qila Abdullah, a border area of Pakistan's Balochistan province with Afghanistan, has killed at least four people and injured more than 20 others, eight of them critically injured.
The explosion occurred in Jabbar commercial market situated on the Quetta-Chaman National Highway in Gulistan town, adjacent to the fort of Pakistan's Frontier Corps (FC).
As per details, the massive explosion destroyed many shops and vehicles parked in the area and walls of the FC Fort were also damaged. Locals said that many shops in the market also caught fire.
This story is from the May 20, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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