DERA MURAD JAMALI: Three personnel of Balochistan Highway Police, including a senior officer, sustained injuries in a bomb attack on the Sibi-Sukkur highway in Nasirabad district, on Monday.

The police personnel were patrolling the highway near Dera Murad Jamali, the divisional headquarters of Nasirabad, when it was targeted, officials said.

They added that an impro-vised explosive device was used to target the highway police vehicle. `It seems the IED was detonated with a remote control,` a senior police officer said.

Officials of the bomb disposal squad later collected evidence from the blast site.

Soon after the explosion, police rushed to the site and shifted the injured police officials, identified as Inspector Ghulam Murtaza, Head Constable Naik Muhammad Bugti and Constable Haroon Khan, to Dera Murad Jamali districthospital.

NasirabadDIGMuhammad Asim Khan and highway police SSP Khadim Hussain Magsi reached the hospital and inquired after the health of the injured personnel.

`A search operation is underway to trace out the elements involved in the attack, the DIG said.

Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfarz Bugti strongly condemned the attack and said the morale of police and security forces could not be affected by such cowardly attacks.