A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Monday, killing five persons and wounding 20 others, police said.
The blast took place in Chaman’s Mall Road and a number of vehicles were damaged in the attack.
The bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked outside a shop killed 5 persons and injuring 20 others, a senior police official said.
The injured have been shifted to a hospital for treatment, the officer said.
Chaman is considered a sensitive town in Balochistan as it shares a border with Afghanistan’s volatile Kandahar province. In March this year, at least nine people were injured in an explosion near the Levies Lines of the town.
(With inputs from agencies)
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