A bomb blast in the Balochistan capital of Quetta killed at least four people and injured nearly a dozen others.
On Sunday, it happened near the Rakhni area of Barkhan, the provincial capital. Local cops revealed that the explosives were planted in a motorcycle.
Soon after the blast in Quetta, security and rescue personnel rushed to the scene, transporting bodies and injured to Civil Hospital.
According to police, the explosion also damaged several vehicles, motorcycles, and nearby shops.
Meanwhile, security forces have cordoned off the area and an investigation is underway.
Quetta is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in the southwest of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan.
It is the capital of the province of Balochistan where it is the largest city. The city is known as the “Fruit Garden of Pakistan” due to the numerous fruit orchards in and around it, and the large variety of fruits and dried fruit products produced there.
The city is near the Bolan Pass route which was once one of the major gateways from Central Asia to South Asia. Quetta played an important role militarily for the Pakistani Armed Forces in the intermittent Afghanistan conflict. It is currently home to 500,000 undocumented Afghan refugees.
