QUETTA: At least three people were killed and six others wounded Sunday when a bomb exploded in Quetta, police said. “Three dead bodies and six injured have been taken to hospital,” Munir Ahmad, a Quetta police official, told AFP.

Ahmad said the bomb had been concealed in a motorcycle that was parked at a vegetable market in the Hazarganji neighbourhood.

An intelligence official in Quetta confirmed details of the blast. It occurred in a different part of town to where thousands of anti-government demonstrators were gathering for a rally Sunday.