IS claims Pakistan bomb blast killing three policemen

Folks have a look at a broken police bus parked in a safety compound following a bomb explosion in Mastung district on April 15, 2025.
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The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed a bomb explosion focusing on police in Pakistan’s turbulent southwest that killed three policemen and wounded greater than a dozen.

A bomb planted on a parked bike on Tuesday (April 15, 2025) focused a passing bus carrying 40 policemen in Mastung metropolis of impoverished Balochistan province, the place safety forces have been battling sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence for many years.

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In an announcement on Tuesday (April 15, 2025), the jihadist group’s regional department, Islamic State Khorasan (IS-Okay), which regularly carries out assaults on safety forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan, claimed its “troopers” focused the “apostate” police.

Pakistan has witnessed a pointy rise in violence in its areas bordering Afghanistan because the Taliban returned to energy in Kabul in 2021, with Islamabad accusing its western neighbour of permitting its soil for use for assaults towards Pakistan – a declare the Taliban denies.

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In Balochistan, separatist violence has intensified together with an assault final month by ethnic Baloch militants on a prepare carrying 450 passengers, which sparked a two-day siege and left dozens useless.

IS-Okay can be energetic. The group has claimed duty for assaults on non secular minorities, focused killings of spiritual students, and assaults on safety officers.

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In July 2023, the group claimed a suicide bombing at a political social gathering gathering that killed greater than 54 folks, together with 23 youngsters.

Greater than 200 folks, principally safety officers, have been killed in assaults because the begin of the 12 months by armed teams preventing the federal government in each Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, in response to an AFP tally.