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Blast kills two in Pakistan's southwest

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Press Trust of India Karachi
At least two soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in a roadside bombing in Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province today, police said.

A vehicle of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) was targeted with remote controlled bomb on Qambrani Road in provincial capital Quetta.

Unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire following the blast that hit the FC vehicle.

Senior police official Imran Qureshi said that the bomb was planted on the roadside and detonated through a remote-controlled device when a convoy of the Frontier Corps was passing by.

"Two civilians were killed and 14 people including two FC soldiers injured," he said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Baloch nationalists often target the security forces in the restive province.
 

It was second violent attack in the city after gunmen killed eight people of Hazara Shiite community.

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First Published: Oct 23 2014 | 6:20 PM IST

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