Bomb attacks wound 17 in Quetta: police

QUETTA: Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Quetta on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections, police said.

The first attack wounded 13 people near a private hospital in Pakistan's city of Quetta, police said.

The bicycle bomb exploded in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich province of Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.

Police official Fayaz Sumbal said the target was not clear as the injured were mainly bystanders and there was no immediate claim of responsibility.