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September 05, 2021At least three members of the Pakistani security forces have been killed and 20 other people injured in a suicide attack not far from the Afghan border at a checkpoint in Quetta, Baluchistan, in western Pakistan. To claim Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp), Pakistani police say that the bomber allegedly targeted border guards in the Mian Ghundi district of the city, near the border with Afghanistan, where the Shiite Hazara merchants they traded in vegetables.
Police sources also confirmed the number of injured. Many civilians among them. Shia Muslims have often been targeted by radical Sunni Islamic groups, who view them as heretics.
For his part, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp) said: "One of our fighters wearing an explosive vest hit a border police checkpoint in a vehicle filled with explosives. Over 25 officers were killed" he added, but the latter information has not been confirmed.