QUETTA: A bomb explosion on a busy road in Quetta on Saturday killed three people, including a paramilitary soldier, and wounded at least 16 other people, security officials said.
The bomb, planted in a car parked by the side of the road on a crowded crossroads in Quetta city, apparently targeted a paramilitary vehicle passing the area.
"The bomb was detonated by remote control when a vehicle of the Frontier Corps (FC) came close to a busy crossroads," Quetta police chief Abdul Razzak Cheema told AFP.
Cheema said two of the dead and most of the wounded were labourers who were waiting in the area.
A member of a bomb disposal unit told AFP that high quality explosives weighing up to 40 kilograms (up to 90 pounds) had been used to make the bomb.
A Frontier Corps spokesman, Manzoor Ahmed, confirmed that one soldier has martyred in the attack while another was wounded.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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