A powerful explosion near Zero Point in Khuzdar targeted a school going children bus on Wednesday, martyring five, including three children and two adults, besides injuring dozens more.

‘In yet another cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan, innocent school going children bus was targeted today in Khuzdar’, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

It said after having miserably failed in the battlefield, through these most heinous and cowardly such like acts, Indian proxies have been unleashed to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

‘As per the initial reports, three innocent children and two adults have embraced Shahadat and multiple children have sustained injuries’, the ISPR said.

It said having failed in the Operation Bunyanum Marsoos and being hunted by military and law enforcement agencies, these Indian terror proxies are being employed as a state tool by India to foment terrorism in Pakistan against soft targets such as innocent children and civilians.

It said use of terrorism as a state policy by Indian political government is abhorrent and reflective of their low morality and disregard of basic human norms.

‘Planners, abettors and executors of this cowardly Indian sponsored attack will be hunted down and brought to justice and heinous face of India will be exposed infront of the entire world’, the statement added.

It said Pakistan Armed Forces with the support of brave Pakistani nation, stand united to uproot Indian sponsored terrorism from Pakistan in its all manifestations.

According to media reports quoting the Deputy Commissioner Khuzdar, 35 others sustained injuries in the blast. The injured have been moved to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Khuzdar for treatment, while authorities have cordoned off the area to collect evidence from the scene.