Explosion in Pakistan’s Quetta: Top Pakistani cricketers, including captain Babar Azam and Shahid Afridi, are escorted to their dressing rooms by security after a terrorist attack a few miles from the Nawab Akbar Bugti Stadium on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Was taken to the dressing room. These players were playing an exhibition match of the Pakistan Super League. After the bomb blast, it was stopped for some time.
The blast took place in Police Lines area injuring five people. A senior police officer said that the rescue operation has been completed and the injured have been shifted to the hospital. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Sunday. The statement said the blast was targeted at security officials.
Pakistan Cricket Board had organized the exhibition match
An exhibition match between Pakistan Cricket Team (PSL) team Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi was organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). “As soon as the blast happened, the match was stopped as a precautionary measure and the players were taken to the dressing room for some time,” the police officer said. Later the match was restored. The ground was packed for the match.
Sports activities in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, have come to a standstill for the past several years due to the fragile security situation and the constant threat of terrorist attacks. It is not clear what was the nature of the explosion. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has intensified terrorist attacks in recent days.
last week Peshawar 80 people were killed and hundreds were injured in a suicide attack on a police line. Most of them were policemen. Then the statement issued by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said that it had carried out the suicide attack to avenge the killing of its commander Umar Khalid Khurasani. Pakistani army killed TTP commander Umar Khalid Khurasani in August 2022.
