(RTTNews) - Unidentified militants Tuesday targeted a senior police officer with a roadside bomb in Quetta, capital of the restive Balochistan province in south-west Pakistan, killing more than one person besides injuring many others in the latest of a wave of deadly terrorist attacks.

Deputy Inspector General (operations) Nizam Shahid Durrani was among those slightly injured in the morning attack outside his office on Spini Road. His driver was admitted to hospital in a serious condition.

Balochistan Interior Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said a passer-by was killed in the blast after an improvised explosive device (IED) hidden in a parked motorcycle was detonated by remote control. The bomb was detonated as the DIG approached his office in his vehicle, he added.
The motorcycle was reduced to a heap of mangled metal, while window glass of the police official's jeep was blown out, its tires burst and the windscreen smashed.

The attack came a day after a suicide-bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing more than five persons and injuring 20 others.

Quetta has witnessed frequent bomb attacks by ethnic Balochi militant groups--fighting for autonomy--targeting officials and non-Balochi residents or visitors.

by RTT Staff Writer

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