Pakistan - Five people including
two policemen were killed and 27 injured in a blast near a
police station in southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on
Tuesday evening.
Police said a week ago a similar blast claimed the lives of two people.
An explosive rigged motorcycle was detonated to target a
police van parked outside the police station in the heart of
Quetta’s busy shopping area, the city police chief said.
“Five people have been killed, including two policemen,”
Abdul Razzaq Cheema, Quetta police chief told Reuters.
Two women
and a child are among the 27 injured in the blast, he added.
In a similar blast last Tuesday two people were killed and
16 were injured when an explosive-rigged motorcycle went off
outside a store in Quetta.
Violence in the Baluchistan province, which borders
Afghanistan and Iran, has fuelled concern about the security of
investments, in particular an energy link planned to run from
western China to Pakistan’s southern port of Gwadar.