Quetta Killings

  • 8 June 2003:- 11 Pakistani police trainees were shot dead in  attack on Sariab Road, Quetta, they all belonged to Hazara Shia branch of Islam. 9 reported wounded.
  • 4 July 2003:- At least 47 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a Shia mosque in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.
  • 2-March 2004: At least 42 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of the Shia Muslims was attacked by Deobandi extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta.
  • 10 December 2004:- At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion at a market in city of Quetta. The bomb exploded near an Army truck.
  • 19 March 2005:- At least 35 people were killed and many injured when a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Deobandi devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.
  • 25 January 2006:- At least six people were killed and five others hurt after a bus ran over a landmine in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan.
  • 5 February 2006:- A bomb explosion killed 13 people including three army personnel and injured 18 in Kolpur, Bolan District, Balochistan.
  • 10 March 2006:- At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan after their bus hit a landmine.
  • 12 June 2006:- At least five people were killed and 17 wounded in a bomb attack in Quetta hotel.
  • 26 August 2006:- Tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces in Balochistan. At least five soldiers and at least 30 rebels are thought to have died too.
  • 8 September 2006:- At least six people were killed and 17 injured, four of them seriously, when a powerful bomb blast hit the Rakhni bazaar area of Barkhan District, Balochistan.
  • 17 February 2007:- A suicide bomber killed 15 people including a judge inside a courtroom in Quetta, Balochistan. At least 24 people were wounded in the suicide attack.
  • 8 June 2007:- Three people were killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in Hub, Balochistan.
  •  19 July 2007:- 26 people died and 50 were injured in the southern town of Hub, Lasbela District, Balochistan.
  • 20 October 2007:- At least eight people were killed and 28 injured when a powerful bomb planted in a pick-up vehicle exploded in Dera Bugti, Balochistan.
  • 13 December 2007:- Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people.
  • 19 September 2008:- A bomb exploded at an Islamic religious school in Quetta killing five people and wounding at least eight.
  • 19 October 2008:-  Atleast three people and injured six. The blast occurred in a bazar of the Dera Bugti district, Balochistan.
  • 27 October 2008:- Two persons were killed and 12 others injured, some of them seriously, in a bomb blast near the District Court Complex in Quetta
  • 13 August 2008:- Six people were killed and 19 others, were injured in explosions in Hub and Uthal, a hand-grenade attack in Panjgur and shooting incidents in Kharan and Turbat towns in Balochistan

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