According to authorities, a suicide car bomber targeted a class vehicle in the restive Khuzdar area of southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least four children and injuring 38 people. The death toll is anticipated to rise as more people are injured and in critical issue. According to Khuzdar’s deputy director Yasir Iqbal, the vehicle was taking children to a military-run class when it was struck. No organization has so far apologised, but suspicion is likely to be cast on racial Baloch separatist organizations, particularly the BLA, which has frequently attacked provincial security forces and civilians. The BLA was declared a criminal organization by the US in 2019. Mohsin Naqvi, the interior minister, harshly criticized the attack, saying:” The army committed large savagery by targeting honest children. The bombing of Wednesday comes just weeks after a similar vehicle explosion in Qillah Abdullah, even in Balochistan, killed four people. In a deadly attack on a passenger train in the state in March, BLA rebels carried out a deadly attack on a rider station, killing 33 people, mostly men. Attacks on schoolchildren have occurred in different areas, including the damaging 2014 Taliban assault on a military school in Peshawar that left 154 people dead, most of them kids, despite separatists in Balochistan generally targeting military or police officers.
