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At least nine police personnel killed in suspected suicide attack in southwest Pakistan

The latest in a succession of recent assaults against security officials in the South Asian country left at least nine police officers dead and 11 others injured in a suspected suicide blast on Monday in Pakistan‘s unrest-plagued Balochistan region, according to authorities.

Mehmood Notezai, senior superintendent of the Kachhi Police, reported that a police vehicle was attacked in the Sibi area of the province.
Initial information indicates that it was a suicide attack, he said, adding that an investigation was in progress.

Afterwards, a newly founded militant organization known as Tehreek e Jihad Pakistan (TJP) claimed responsibility for the explosion.

A statement from TJP sent to CNN confirmed that the group was formed on February 23 in order to “establish an Islamic system in Pakistan” through the use of “armed Jihad.”

This is the first major attack by the group in the country. Pakistan’s interior ministry has not confirmed that the TJP is behind the attack.

Among the officers injured in the incident, three remain in critical condition and are receiving hospital treatment, Sibi’s Combined Military Hospital administration said.

Footage obtained by CNN showed pieces of debris strewn along an isolated highway at the scene of the attack, as authorities scoured the site for evidence.

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by area, has seen a decades-long insurgency by separatists who demand independence from the country, citing what they say is the state’s monopoly and exploitation of the region’s mineral resources.

The blast Monday was the third major attack against Pakistani security personnel in as many months, highlighting the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country.

At least four people were killed and 14 others injured in February after militants stormed the police headquarters in the southern city of Karachi. Pakistan’s Taliban, known as Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack, according to spokesman Mohammad Khorasani.

And in January, at least 100 people – mostly police officials – died after a suicide bomb ripped through a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years.

TTP officials initially claimed the blast was “revenge” for the death of a TTP militant last year before the militant group’s main spokesperson later denied the group was involved in the attack.

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