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5 blasts kill six in Quetta

Four policemen were killed and six were wounded in five explosions at a police training school Quetta.

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QUETTA (Pakistan): Six policemen were killed and 13 were wounded on Thursday in five blasts at a police training school in Pakistan's troubled southwest, police and hospital sources said.
 
The explosions occurred in the firing range of the police training school in the city of Quetta.
 
There was confusion over the nature of the explosive devices with some police saying they were remote-controlled bombs, while others said landmines caused the blasts.
 
A hospital official said six bodies and 13 wounded had been received at the hospital.   
 
“More wounded persons are being brought to hospital,” he said.   
 
The bombs went off in quick succession when commandoes of the police Anti-Terrorist Force were training.
 
“It happened at around 8.40 am. The blasts occurred one after another,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Qazi Abdul Wahid, told Reuters.   
 
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts.   
 
Quetta is the capital of Pakistan''s southwestern Baluchistan province where tribal militants are fighting for greater autonomy and more benefits from the exploration of oil and gas.   
 
Militants regularly blow up gas pipelines, rail links and power pylons, and launch rocket attacks on government buildings and army bases in the province.
 
On Sunday, three landmine blasts in the province killed three people and wounded seven, officials said.
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