Five schoolchildren among 8 killed in blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province

Islamabad | Karachi: At least eight people, including five children, were killed and 27 others were injured as an autorickshaw carrying schoolchildren bore the brunt of a bomb blast targeting a police mobile van in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Friday.

The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a girl's high school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province.

Mastung District Police Officer Miandad Umrani confirmed that while seven people, including five schoolchildren, had died on the spot after the blast, one of the injured passed away in a hospital.


"The number of injured is around 27 and some civilians themselves took some of the injured to the hospitals," he said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but ethnic Baloch terrorists and Taliban terrorists often attack the security forces in the province.