QUETTA: Four people, including two children, were killed and 28 wounded Saturday in a bomb blast and a militant attack on Pakistani troops, security officials said. The children and one civilian were killed by a remote-control motorcycle bomb targeting security forces in Punjgur district of the insurgency-hit southwest province of Baluchistan. “Three people including two children were killed and 26 people were injured, the target was a paramilitary convoy,” said a senior security official. Five soldiers were among the wounded, officials said. The second incident occurred in the lawless northwest tribal district of South Waziristan, where a group of militants attacked a security checkpost in Ladha town, triggering a gunfight which killed one soldier and wounded two others. “One soldier was killed and two were injured in the attack, three militants were also killed in the retaliatory fire,” said a security official in Peshawar, the main city in the northwest. – Agence France
