The United States Embassy in Islamabad strongly sentenced the deadly attack on a school bus in Khuzdar, Balutchistan, which martyred six people, including four students, and injured dozens of others.
The terrorists targeted the school bus while heading for the Education Institute with more than 40 students on board.
Natalie A Baker, manager at the United States Embassy, in an X Post said: “We join Pakistan leaders to condemn the brutal and unreasonable attack against a school bus in Khuzdar, Baloutchistan.”
She described the murder of innocent children as “beyond understanding” and expressed her sympathy for the families of the victims: “We mourn with families who have lost dear beings, and our thoughts are with those who recover.”
Baker added: “No child should never fear going to school” and confirmed American support for efforts to end violence in Pakistan: “We are holding with those of Pakistan who work to end this violence.”
After the tragic attack, the chief minister of Balutchistan, Sarfaraz Bugti, told journalists who were six martyrs, including four children, the bus driver and his assistant, while the seriously injured were transported by air to the combined military hospital (MHH) Quetta.
The Khuzdar sub-commissioner said more than 30 people were injured in the explosion.
The government said that militants supported by India led the attack, coming almost two weeks after the two parties settled a cease-fire to end their most serious conflict in decades.
Security sources have identified three of martyrs as students of the sixth year Sania Soomoro, Hifza Kousar of the seventh year and Esha Saleem of the 10th year.
The army media wing in a press release said: “In another loose and horrible attack planned and orchestrated by [the] Terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balutchistan, [an] An innocent bus in children at school has been targeted today in Khuzdar. “”
