Blast targeting president's son kills three, injures 15
May 24, 2015
KARACHI: Three people were killed and fifteen others injured when militants targeted a convoy carrying President Mamnoon...
KARACHI: Three people were killed and fifteen others injured when militants targeted a convoy carrying President Mamnoon Hussain’s son in Hub area of Balochistan late Sunday night, police said.
"An explosive laden motorbike parked at a roadside was blown up with a remote control device when [the] convoy of President Mamnoon Hussain´s son, Salman Mamnoon was passing by late Sunday night in Hub Industrial Zone near the border with Karachi," local police official Ghulam Mustafa Shah said.
He said the president´s son was unharmed as his vehicle had already passed the spot near Juma Khan hotel where the device exploded hitting a rickshaw and the last vehicle of the convoy.
"The rickshaw driver, a 12-year-old child in the rickshaw and a passerby died at the spot," he said.
Zahid Ullah, a senior police official confirmed the incident and said the president’s son is a frequent visitor at a dairy farm in the area.
"The president’s son was the apparent target of the attack," he said.
Rescue workers rushed the injured to the Civil Hospital in Karachi.
"An explosive laden motorbike parked at a roadside was blown up with a remote control device when [the] convoy of President Mamnoon Hussain´s son, Salman Mamnoon was passing by late Sunday night in Hub Industrial Zone near the border with Karachi," local police official Ghulam Mustafa Shah said.
He said the president´s son was unharmed as his vehicle had already passed the spot near Juma Khan hotel where the device exploded hitting a rickshaw and the last vehicle of the convoy.
"The rickshaw driver, a 12-year-old child in the rickshaw and a passerby died at the spot," he said.
Zahid Ullah, a senior police official confirmed the incident and said the president’s son is a frequent visitor at a dairy farm in the area.
"The president’s son was the apparent target of the attack," he said.
Rescue workers rushed the injured to the Civil Hospital in Karachi.
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