Rangers official martyred, 10 injured in Karachi blast

Karachi, March 16 : A Rangers official was martyred and 10 others, including two Rangers personnel, were injured in an explosion in Karachi’s Orangi Town on Monday evening, police said.
West Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Suhai Aziz said that the attack was apparently directed at the Rangers personnel who were passing through the area in a vehicle when the bomb – fitted in a parked motorcycle – went off, the Dawn reported.
As a result, three Rangers personnel and seven other people were injured, she added. They were shifted to different hospitals in the city. One Rangers official succumbed to his injuries, the SSP said.
CTD DIG Omar Shahid Hamid said the banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) had claimed responsibility for the attack through their social media account.
Mominabad SHO Gul Mohammed Awan also confirmed that the bomb was planted in a parked motorcycle in Orangi Town-5.
One official of the Karachi Traffic Police and a constable of the Anti-Vehicle Lifting Cell who were passing through the area when the explosion took place were also among the injured, he added.