Three children and two adults die on school bus in Pakistan when attacked

Three children and two adults die on school bus in Pakistan when attacked

in Quetta, Balochistan, there was a suicide attack on a school bus in the southwest Pakistans in which three students of a military school were killed, like authorities announced. This incident illustrates the increasingly tense security situation in the region.

Details about the attack

The explosion occurred in the city of Khuzdar in the troubled province of Balochistan and was directed against a school bus that transported a "large number" of children of military people, according to Yasir Dashti, a high -ranking government official in the province. 38 people were injured in the attack.

victim and background

"The bus transported children of the Army Public School," said Kaleem Ullah, a police officer from Khuzdar. Army Public Schools are a network of educational institutions throughout Pakistan, which are provided for children by military members. According to an explanation of the Pakistani military, at least three children and two adults were killed. So far there is no official declaration of responsibility for the attack.

The security situation in Balochistan

Balochistan has been characterized by a separatist uprising and striving for mineral mountain region.

political reactions

The Pakistani military has accused “Indian deputy” of being behind the attack without providing evidence of this claim. Pakistan previously accused his neighbor and arch enemy of being behind attacks in Balochistan, which NEW DELHI has returned. CNN asked the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Indian Army for an opinion.

Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif sharply condemned the "fig attack" in a explanation and repeated the military allegations that India was behind the attack. India has long accused Pakistan of protecting militant groups that have carried out the attacks across the border, including a recent massacre of tourists in the Indian -managed cashmere, which Islamabad rejects.

conflicts and tensions

The tensions between the two countries escalated according to this massacre, which led to a short four days of conflict in the early this month, the most intense struggle between the two nations in decades. Since then a fragile ceasefire has lasted.

previous incidents and children as a destination

The attack on Wednesday takes place a little more than two months after the Tönkung a session by separatian militant in Balochistan, in which the Baloch Liberation Army took more than 350 people - including security forces - as hostages and killed 27 of them.

children were also the goal of some of the most devastating terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In an attack by militant Taliban, at least 145 people, mainly school children, were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014 - the worst terrorist attack in the country's history. A well-known victim was the then 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai , which was targeted on October 9, 2012 while she was in one car with other girls to school drove.