March 2022 Quetta bombing | |
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Location | Fatima Jinnah Road, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan |
Date | 2 March 2022 Approximately 7:00pm (PKT) |
Target | Police mobile |
Attack type | Bombing |
Deaths | 3 |
Injured | 25 |
At about 7pm on 2 March 2022, a bomb exploded near a police mobile on Fatima Jinnah Road in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. It killed three people and injured 25 others, leaving six of them in critical condition. [1] [2] [3]
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