OGDCL's four employees killed in bomb blast

QUETTA: At least four employees of Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDCL) have been killed and four sustained injuries in a bomb blast occurred at Dera Allahyar town of Jaffarabad district on Thursday.

"Unknown men planted an explosive material into a motor rickshaw and parked it on the road and detonated it when a vehicle carrying employees of OGDCL passed there," police said.

Police added that as a result of the explosion, four employees were killed and four injured.

The bodies of deceased and the injured were shifted to hospital where one of the dead was identified as Amjad Ali and two wounded as Shafeeq Ahmed and Kamran Siddiqui.

Law enforcement personnel rushed to the site and launched search operation to trace the suspects out. Further investigation was underway.

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