A bomb exploded in a crowded bazaar in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others, an official said. The bomb, planted on a bicycle parked outside a shop, went off in Khuzdar, a town about 350 kilometers (210 miles) south of Quetta in Baluchistan province, local government official Omar Babar told The Associated Press. "I confirm that a bomb explosion has killed one person, while 14 others have been injured," he said, adding that the injured were taken to a nearby hospital, where at least three were in critical condition. Hours after the blast, a little-known group, the Baluchistan Liberation Army, contacted reporters, claiming responsibility and warning the government not to deploy new army garrisons in Baluchistan, a southwestern province of which Quetta is the capital. "We accept responsibility for today's bomb blast," a spokesman for the group, Mir Azad Baluch, told a newspaper reporter in Quetta. He made similar telephone calls to other newspapers.
