QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide bomber targeting a senior police officer in militant-infested southwestern Pakistan killed a constable Thursday and wounded five other people, including two children, the force said.
The attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into the house of a senior investigations officer near a police headquarters in Quetta, the main town of Baluchistan province.
“The constable on duty was killed and five people were injured. It was a car suicide attack,” Daud Juneju, Quetta police chief told AFP.
“The officer and his family are safe, the house was badly damaged. The suicide bomber was trying to hit his house,” he added.
The injured include two school children, he said.
Impoverished Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is wracked by an insurgency waged by ethnic Baluch tribes seeking greater autonomy from the federal government and a greater share of profits from natural resources.
Hundreds of people have died since a rebellion broke out in 2004.
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