A Pakistani soldier stands near a burning bus at the site of a bomb blast in Quetta on June 15, 2013.
A series of bomb attacks across Pakistan has left at least 53 people dead and many others injured, officials say.
In the deadliest attack on Sunday, a bomb blast ripped through a checkpoint close to a Shia neighborhood in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing 28 people.
Å“Twenty-eight people have been killed and more than 51 others are injured,” said senior police official Mir Zubair.
Å“Nine women, a minor girl and four boys were also killed in the attack,” Zubair added.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has claimed responsibility for Sundayâ„¢s deadly attack in Quetta.
Meanwhile, 17 people were killed in another violent bomb attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Jamil Shah who is spokesman for the government-run Lady Reading Hospital in the city said more than 45 people were also wounded in the blast. He further said at least four children and one woman were among the dead.
Officials also said that in two other separate bombings in the tribal region of Waziristan, eight people, including four security officials, lost their lives.
On June 27, two people were killed and five others injured in a bomb attack carried out near a mosque in a suburb of Quetta.
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.
MR/AS
Republished with permission from:: Press TV