Twin bomb blasts kill 16, wounds 28 in Quetta

QUETTA: A car bomb followed by a suicide attack targeting security forces killed 16 people and wounded 28 others in Quetta on Wednesday, police said.

"First a car bomb exploded outside the residence of DIG Frontier Corps, then a suicide bomber entered inside the house and blew himself up," senior police official Hamid Shakil said, referring to the corps' deputy inspector general.

"The DIG is safe. Sixteen people have been killed and 28 were wounded," he added.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011