{"id":9409,"date":"2023-09-30T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/mastung-suicide-attack-claims-55-lives-latest-updates-and-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:39:07","slug":"mastung-suicide-attack-claims-55-lives-latest-updates-and-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/mastung-suicide-attack-claims-55-lives-latest-updates-and-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastung Suicide Attack Claims 55 Lives: Latest Updates and Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-role=\"article_content\">\n<p><strong>Syed Ali Shah, Manan Mandokhail, News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Mastung<\/em>:<\/strong> At least 55 people, including a senior police official, were killed when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up near a procession commemorating Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) in Balochistan\u2019s Mastung district on Friday, confirmed police.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials confirmed that DSP Mastung Nawaz Gishkori was among those killed and at least 60 people were injured. Officials expressed fear that the number of casualties may increase. \u201cIt was like a doomsday\u201d, Niaz Muhammad, a young man who lost a brother in the blast said. With a burst of tears, he said, \u201cI lost my beloved brother\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Heartbreaking scenes outside the hospital<\/h2>\n<p>Scores of broken family members and heirs of the Mastung blast were gathered outside the hospital. Heartbreaking scenes of the heirs were witnessed after they saw the dead bodies of their loved ones. \u201cI cannot bear this huge loss\u201d, Abdullah Baloch, another young man told Daily Quetta Voice with a burst of tears. Like Abdullah scores of heirs and family members of the victims were crying outside the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mastung\u2019s assistant commissioner, the blast took place near Al-Falah Mosque, where people were gathering to participate in the procession. \u201cTerrorism poses a serious threat to the country\u201d, Captain (R) Zubair Jamali, the Caretaker Balochistan Home Minister told Daily Quetta Voice.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Mastung blast 51 injured brought to civil hospital Quetta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5d_ZkVxgFz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>CM Balochistan condemns the attack<\/h2>\n<p>The Caretaker Chief Minister Balochistan, Ali Mardan Domki strongly condemned the terrorist attack. In a statement issued after the incident, he said the perpetrators would be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<h2>Seriously injured and brought to Quetta<\/h2>\n<p>All seriously injured people in the blast were rushed to Quetta for medical treatment. An emergency was declared in all government-run hospitals of this provincial capital. \u201cThe death toll is above 50\u201d, Asfandyar Khan, the Secretary of Health Balochistan told Daily Quetta Voice.<\/p>\n<p>He said over 100 were injured in the attack. \u201cWe put all departments on high alert\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Security forces on alert<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Following the bomb attack in Mastung, Karachi Police stated that police will remain \u201ccompletely on high alert\u201d on the directions of Additional Inspector General Khadim Husain Rind.<\/p>\n<p>The senior police official ordered the force to tighten security measures to safeguard Eid Miladun Nabi events and processions across the city.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Condemnations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Shortly after the blast, condolences poured in. \u201cThe morale of the nation cannot be weakened by cowardly acts of terror,\u201d said Interim Information Minister Murtaza Solangi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of Pakistan is united against the scourge of terrorism. Terrorist elements do not deserve any concession,\u201d he said, adding that with the cooperation of security forces, the \u201cmonster of terrorism\u201d will be eliminated completely.<\/p>\n<p>Solangi also offered condolences to the aggrieved families and prayed for the departed souls while strongly condemning the attack.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar statement made on X, formerly Twitter, Interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said that attacking innocent people during an Eid Miladun Nabi is a \u201cterrible act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Ali Shah, Manan Mandokhail, News Desk Mastung: At least 55 people, including a senior police official, were killed when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up near a procession commemorating Eid Miladun Nabi (PBUH) in Balochistan\u2019s Mastung district on Friday, confirmed police. Police officials confirmed that DSP Mastung Nawaz Gishkori was among those killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.quettavoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230929_143040.jpg?resize=635,380&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quetta-zila-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}