The United States Embassy in Islamabad strongly condemned the deadly attack against a school bus in Khuzdar, Baluchistan, which martyred six people, including four students, and injured more dozen.
The terrorists attacked the school bus while heading towards the Educational Institute with more than 40 students on board.
Natalie A Baker, Charge d’Affires at the United States Embassy, in an X Post said: “We join Pakistan leaders to condemn the brutal and inconceivable attack against a school bus in Khuzdar, Baluchistan.”
He described the murder of innocent children as “beyond understanding” and expressed their sympathy for the families of the victims: “We afflicted ourselves with families who lost loved ones, and our thoughts are with whom they recover.”
Baker added: “No child should fear going to school” and affirmed the support of the United States to efforts to end violence in Pakistan: “We are with those in Pakistan who work to end this violence.”
After the tragic attack, Baluchistan’s prime minister, Sarfaraz Bugti, told reporters that they were six martyred, including four children, the bus driver and his assistant, while the serious injured were being transported by air to the combined military hospital (CMH) Quetta.
Khuzdar’s deputy commissioner said more than 30 people suffered wounds in the explosion.
The Government said that the militants backed by the Indians carried out the attack, arriving almost two weeks after the two parties resolved the fire to end their most serious conflict in decades.
Security sources identified three of the martyrdos as a student of a sixth grade student Soeomoro, Hifza Kusar of SIED grade and Esha Salem of grade 10.
The army media wing, in a statement, said: “In another cowardly and horrible attack planned and orchestrated by [the] Terrorist state of India and executed by its representatives in Baluchistan, [an] The innocent children’s bus that headed to school was attacked today in Khuzdar. “
