File photo shows a Pakistani soldier standing near a burning bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta.
At least two people have been killed and six others injured in a bomb explosion in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern city of Quetta, police say.
The blast took place on Sunday after the bomb, which was planted on a busy road, exploded at around sunset when people were coming back from work.
Å“The bomb had been planted between two vehicles parked along the Sariab road. We can confirm the deaths of two people and wounds to six others as a result of this explosion,” local police official, Muhammad Babar said.
Police have launched an investigation into the deadly incident, Babar added.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the bomb attack, but pro-Taliban militants have been blamed for similar attacks in the past.
Quetta is the capital of southwestern Baluchistan Province that is believed to have considerable oil and gas reserves.
In August, Pakistani security forces confiscated more than 100 tons of bomb-making material in Quetta.
The seizure after Pakistani police captured two men driving a truck in the city carrying 15 tons of potassium chlorate, a chemical used for making bombs, cached under a number of boxes of potato chips.
Reports say acts of violence have claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people in Pakistan over the past six years.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the United States in the so-called war on terror.
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.
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Republished from: Press TV