By Fakhar ur-Rehman, Mushtaq Yusufzai and Mujeeb Ahmed, NBC News QUETTA, Pakistan — The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck northwest Pakistan rose to at least 327 early Wednesday, authorities said.The Pakistani military said it had rushed almost 1,000 troops to the area and was sending helicopters in the wake of Tuesday's temblor. […]
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Pakistan rose to at least 80 people on Wednesday after scores of houses collapsed in remote mountainous areas near the Iranian border, Pakistan's Frontier Corps … Quetta News Sources -2
QUETTA, Pakistan–A huge earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, toppling scores of homes and sending people around the region rushing into the streets in … Quetta News Sources -2
QUETTA: A powerful earthquake killed at least 30 people in Balochistan on Tuesday and destroyed scores of houses in a remote mountainous area, a local Quetta News Sources
QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A huge earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, toppling scores of homes and sending people around the region rushing into the streets in panic. The 7.7-magnitude quake centred in Baluchistan province's Awaran district was felt as far afield as New Delhi and Dubai, residents said. It also injured […]
A bomb planted on a bicycle killed at least two people and wounded another in Balochistan province on Monday, officials said. "At least two people were killed and a pedestrian was wounded when a bomb planted on a bicycle exploded on a roadside in Quetta," according to senior police official Bashir Ahmed Brohi. An insurgency […]
The attack Thursday in Quetta also wounded dozens more. The provincial head of police operations (Fayaz Sumbal) is among several senior officers killed in the attack. Hundreds of people had gathered to pay respects to an officer gunned down earlier in the day as he traveled through the city with his children, The bombing is […]
Terrorism A suicide bomber killed 24 people and wounded scores others, including a senior officer, at the funeral of a Pakistani policeman in the western city of Quetta on Thursday, local media quote police sources as saying. Eyewitnesses said fear and chaos broke out among the attendees of the funeral following the blast in the […]
QUETTA: At least ten personnel of the Coast Guards were killed and seven others sustained injuries on Saturday when their checkpost was attacked in Gwadar. Officials of the district administration Gwadar said that some unidentified armed men attacked the Sansar checkpost situated in the Pakistan-Iran border area. At that time, 14 personnel of the Coast […]
QUETTA: At least ten personnel of the Coast Guards were killed and seven others sustained injuries on Saturday when their checkpost was attacked in Gwadar. Officials of the district administration Gwadar said that some unidentified armed men attacked the Sansar checkpost situated in the Pakistan-Iran border area. At that time, 14 personnel of the Coast […]
