Suicide bomber kills 6 at funeral in southwest Pakistan, including senior police officer
QUETTA, Pakistan – Police say a suicide bomber has attacked a funeral in southwestern Pakistan, killing six people, including a senior police officer.
Police chief Mir Zubair Mehmood says the attack happened at a funeral Thursday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. A policeman who was gunned down earlier in the day in the city was being buried.
Mehmood says the bomber detonated his explosives just before the funeral service was about to start. One of the dead included the head of police operations in Baluchistan, Fayaz Sumbal. Twenty people were wounded.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Baluchistan is home to both Islamic militants and separatists who have been waging a low-level insurgency against the governments for decades. The militants more often use suicide attacks in their deadly campaign.
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