At least four policemen were injured today when an IED blast hit their van in this northwestern city of Pakistan.
The incident occurred inKarakar mountains connecting Swat district with Buner district.
The miscreants exploded the remote control device when the police van on routine patrolling reached at the spot, police said.
The blast damaged the vehicle.
Thesecurity personnel cordoned off the entire area and launched investigation into the matter.
"The shrine is located some 250 kilometres from Karachi in
the remote mountains of Uthal and our vehicles have been dispatched there to carry out rescue operations and shift injured to the hospitals," Lassi said.
He said the casualties have been confirmed to them by the organisers of the shrine in Lasbela.
The local tehsildar in Lasbela, Javed Iqbal said security arrangements at the Shah Noorani shrine were not properly arranged.
"It is sad that although thousands of devotees from Karachi and other parts of the country visit the shrine everyday but there are no medical emergencies or ambulances at the site," he said.
He said the devotees take part in the 'dhamaal' everyday after sunset and the blast took place close to where they were dancing in a trance inside the compound of the shrine.
This is not the first time that extremists have targeted a shrine in Balochistan. This is the third major incident of a bomb going off in the province since August.
In August about 70 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside the civil hospital in the provincial capital Quetta. Last month, 64 police cadets and two army men were killed when three terrorists raided a police training centre in Quetta.
