2 killed, 6 injured as suicide blast hits SW Pakistan

At least two security personnel were killed and six others injured when a suicide blast hit a security forces vehicle in Quetta city in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday morning, local Urdu TV channel AJJ reported.

According to local media reports, the blast took place at about 9:15 a.m. local time when the security forces vehicle was on a routine patrolling in saryab road area of Quetta, the capital city of southwestern Balochistan province.

Police and paramilitary forces reached the blast site immediately after the explosion and shifted the bodies to the Civil Hospital Quetta.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)