Roadside Blast Kills 4 İn Pakistan's Baluchistan Province

A powerful roadside blast has killed 4 people and injured 18 others in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province Sunday, police said.



City police chief Anwer Khetran told reporters that the bomb was planted on a motorbike on a busy street in the remote Sibbi district, 165 kilometers (100 miles) from provincial capital Quetta.



He said all of the victims were civilians and that three of the injured were in critical condition. 



No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Baluch separatists have in the past been responsible for roadside blasts in the province, which target security forces but often result in civilian casualties. 



Mineral-rich Baluchistan has been plagued both by sectarian violence and clashes between separatist Baluch militants and security forces. 



Separatists claim the region, which also extends into Iran and Afghanistan, was forcibly incorporated into Pakistan in 1947 following the end of British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent. - Lahor