QUETTA: At least one soldier was martyred and four others wounded including a passerby when a bomb exploded at a paramilitary checkpoint in southwest Pakistan, police said.
The bomb, planted close to the Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint went off early Saturday when soldiers reached the site for daily duty in Quetta, senior police official Abdul Waheed Khattak told AFP.
"It was an IED (improvised explosive device) which exploded the moment soldiers reached the checkpoint," Khattak said.
He added the blast martyred one soldier and wounded four others including a teenager passing the site at the time of the explosion.
"(The) condition of another soldier is also critical," Khattak said.
Sajjad Ahmad, a senior official from FC, confirmed the attack and casualties.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack.
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