Published on 12:00 AM, February 07, 2016
Blast kills 8, injures dozens in Pakistan
A Pakistani resident carries his injured daughter as his wife wriggles out of a damaged auto rickshaw at the site of a bomb explosion that targeted a security convoy in Quetta yesterday. A bomb blast struck a paramilitary vehicle and killed at least 9 people and wounded more than 35 others in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, official said. Photo: AFP
Reuters, Quetta
At least eight people were killed and more than 40 wounded in a bomb blast on Saturday in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, hospital officials said, the latest attack in a region that will be home to the planned route of the $46 billion China-Pakistan economic corridor.
The blast occurred as a convoy of the Frontier Corps, part of Pakistan's paramilitary forces, was passing through the centre of the city near the district courts, said provincial home secretary Akbar Durrani.
It was not immediately clear how many of the casualties were military or civilian.
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