A female student, Malaika, critically wounded in a recent school bus attack in Khuzdar has died from her wounds, security officials said on Friday, bringing the death toll to eight, including six school children, in what authorities describe as an Indian-backed terrorist incident.
The deceased include five female students and one male student, security sources confirmed, adding that the blood of these innocent children will be avenged, and that the Indian-backed instigators would be held accountable.
The suicide attack targeting a school bus in Khuzdar was carried out on Wednesday morning this week.
The suspected bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the school bus as it drove past Zero Point near Rakhshan Hotel, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said, adding that the bus was ferrying students to the Army Public School situated within the Khuzdar cantonment.
The vehicle was rigged with more than 30 kilograms of explosives, according to the Bomb Disposal Squad.
The military’s media wing, Inter-Service Public relations (ISPR), had confirmed that cowardly and ghastly attack was planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan.
The attack sparked an outpouring of condemnation and condolences from the country’s top civil and military leadership.
The United Nations Security Council also strongly condemned the terrorist attack
