Suicide car bomb hits Frontier Constabulary HQ in Quetta, eight dead

At least eight people were killed and dozens more wounded on Tuesday when a powerful car bomb detonated outside the Frontier Constabulary headquarters in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, authorities said. The blast, which officials described as a suicide attack, was followed by heavy gunfire as security forces engaged the assailants, local officials said.

Provincial health minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar said the confirmed death toll stood at eight and warned it could rise as hospitals treated numerous injured. Other local officials put the toll higher, saying as many as 10 people may have died and that more than 30 were wounded. Ambulances and rescuers rushed victims to nearby hospitals after the explosion in the Zarghoon Road area, witnesses and officials said.

Video circulated on social media and shown on local television, including closed circuit camera footage, showed a vehicle approaching the paramilitary compound gate, an explosion that engulfed the area in flames and thick black smoke, and the sound of sustained gunfire. Windows of surrounding buildings were shattered and nearby cars were damaged, according to the footage and on‑scene...