QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov. 22, Reuter: Two people were killed and 16 injured on Saturday by a bomb explosion in a railway station near the Afghan border in Western Pakistan.
The Deputy Commissioner of Chaman, Abdul Manan, said by telephone from the border town on Sunday that the casualties were all Pakistanis. One of the dead was a 13-year-old boy and the other a policeman.
He said the bomb might have been planted by saboteurs from Afghanistan, where Pakistan-based rebels are waging a guerrilla ‘war against the Soviet-backed government in Kabul.
Manan said the bomb ripped through a parcels office in the station, demolishing the building. The injured included the station ‘master and his assistant.
Six of the most seriously hurt were taken to the hospital in Quetta, 160 km to the south-east.
Chaman lies between the Pakistani provincial capital of Quetta and Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second city and center of a region affected by the fighting. The Western backed rebels have important bases around Quetta.
More than 200 people have been killed this year in a wave of bomb attacks in Pakistan, mostly in the frontier regions.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 27, 1987
