Friday, July 4, 2008
A BOMB attached to a motorcycle exploded at a crowded market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing a girl and injuring 11 others, police said.
The blast at the busy Mannan Chowk also injured four policemen, one of them seriously, as well as seven other people, police official Raja Ishtiaq told AFP.
"The blast killed an eight-year-old girl and injured her beggar mother who were sitting near the motorcycle parked by some unknown man," another police official Abdul Ghafoor said, adding that no group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
The impoverished province of Baluchistan, of which Quetta is the capital and which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been wracked by an insurgency waged by ethnic Baluch tribes seeking more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004.
The province has also been hit by attacks blamed on Taliban militants.
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