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QUETTA: Senator Mir Sarfraz Bugti has been targeted in a bomb attack in Balochistan on Saturday evening, according to police. He was traveling between Sui and Kashmore when it was targeted.
They added the senator remained safe in the attack.
Deputy Commissioner Dera Bugti Mumtaz Khatran confirmed that the senator was the target of the bomb blast. However, he added that the former Balochistan home minister was safe but two people were injured.
Police told the media that Senator Sarfraz Bugti’s convoy was targeted in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Dera Bugti. The remote-controlled bomb was detonated after Bugti’s vehicle passed from the road, police added.
Senator Bugti belongs to the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and was elected to the Senate in March 2021 on a general seat.
He sits on multiple committees of the upper house including petroleum, interior, cabinet secretariat, rules and privileges, foreign affairs and a committee to investigate alleged incidents before oath-taking of newly elected senators on March 12, 2021.