(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) At least three people were killed and 15 others injured in a roadside bomb blast in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Sunday evening, police said.
The blast, reportedly targeting the convoy of a son of Pakistan's president Mamnoon Hussain, occurred in the Hub district located 40 kilometers from Karachi, the country's commercial capital.
The bomb was in a motorbike parked along a main highway and was reportedly detonated by remote control. Six policemen were among the injured.
According to Abdul Rasheed, a deputy city police chief, the president's son Salman Manoon was not hurt as his convoy passed through the site minutes before the blast. Salman Manoon owns a farm house located in the suburbs of Hub district, police said.
No group has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, but roadside blasts have been a regular weapon of Baluch separatists who usually target security agencies but end up striking a large number of civilians.
The separatists have been fighting for decades for the "liberation" of mineral-rich Baluchistan , which, according to them, has been forcibly incorporated into Pakistan following the end of British colonial rule in the subcontinent in 1947.
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