Islamabad: Three persons, including two
policemen, were killed and 14 others injured today when bomb
attached to a bicycle went off in Quetta city in southwest
Pakistan, police said.
Police said some unidentified men attached the
remote-controlled bomb to a bicycle and parked it on Kawari
Road in Quetta.
The bomb was detonated when the official vehicle of
the police chief of Khuzdar district was passing the area.
The police official's driver and bodyguard were killed
along with a local trader. The police official was not in the
car, which was badly damaged.
The condition of one of the 14 injured people was
described as critical.
Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and
arrested 18 suspects.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but
similar bombings have been blamed on Baloch nationalist
militants.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in
Balochistan province since an insurgency flared in the
province in 2004.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 21:26