Security personnel have thwarted attacks at multiple locations across Balochistan, provincial government official Shahid Rind said on Saturday morning.
Rind, the special aide to the Chief Minister for political and media affairs, said on X that over 70 terrorists had been killed over the past two days at different locations by security forces across the province.
“Following this, terrorists attempted to carry out attacks at a few places in Balochistan, which the police and the Frontier Corps (FC) thwarted by taking timely action.”
According to a Dawn correspondent, while mobile phone services were working, data services were suspended in Quetta, Sibi and Chaman.
An emergency was imposed in all government hospitals across the province on the directives of Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar and Health Secretary Mujeebur Rehman.
Kakar was supervising the provision of medical treatment to those “injured in the Quetta firing”, a statement from the provincial health department said.
The health minister directed Quetta Trauma Centre Managing Director Dr Arbab Kamran and Quetta Civil Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Abdul Hadi Kakar to ensure the “immediate” provision of medical facilities.
According to the statement, the operating theatres of the Quetta Trauma Centre and Civil Hospital have been put on alert, and additional doctors have been deployed.
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