Three soldiers among four killed in Balochistan bomb attack

Two separate bomb attacks on paramilitary convoys in Balochistan province on Thursday killed four people including three soldiers, officials said. The separatist Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the first attack, in which a remotely-detonated roadside bomb hit a convoy in Naseer Abad district, 430 kilometres (270 miles) south-east of Quetta.
"Two soldiers and a passer-by were killed and seven others were wounded. One vehicle was also badly damaged," Abdul Jabbar Jatoi, a senior administrative official told AFP. A second bomb, planted in a car and also detonated remotely, went off later in the outskirts of Quetta, killing another soldier and wounding three others, police said.