At least four policemen have been killed and several others wounded after a bomb attack targeted their vehicles while they stood guard outside a mosque in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province.
"Police vehicles provide security in various parts of the city for taraweeh prayers [special prayers in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan]," Cheema told reporters. "As two of these vehicles stopped outside the al-Huda mosque […] an explosion took place."
Twelve people were admitted to the city's main government hospital following the attack, the hospital spokesperson told Al Jazeera before adding that two of them were suffering from serious head wounds.
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