Suicide bomber kills nine police officers in Pakistan

At least nine police officers have been killed by a suicide bomber, with 16 others sustaining injuries in an attack on a police truck on Monday in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.

“The suicide bomber was riding a motorbike and hit the truck from behind,” a senior police official Abdul Hai Aamir.

“The incident took place near Dhadar, the main town of Kachhi district, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of Quetta in Balochistan,” Aamir said.

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The police chief for Kachhi district, Mehmood Notezai, told journalists that the officers were returning from a week-long cattle show where they had been providing security.

So far, there has been no claim of responsiblity for the attack.

Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in a statement released by his office, said “terrorism in Balochistan is part of a nefarious agenda to destabilise the country.”

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