12 police officers, 3 others killed in Pakistan explosion
Police officers were gathered outside a polio vaccination centre in Quetta, southern Pakistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up.
They were getting set to accompany polio workers for the third day of a vaccination campaign at the time of the explosion.
“There are 15 dead, including 12 police, one paramilitary, and two civilians,” AFP quotes a local police officer to have said.
Three vehicles were blown up in the explosion while human remains “lay strewn across the ground, walls, and electric poles along with items of clothing including the caps and shoes of policemen”.
This explosion follows a similar one near the Pakistani consulate in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city just days after four-country talks aimed at reviving Taliban peace negotiations commenced in Islamabad.
