By Aamir Latif
ISLAMABAD
Three people including a soldier were killed and 24 injured in a roadside blast in Pakistan’s south-western city of Quetta city on Saturday, police said.
Police Chief Abdul Razzak Cheema said the bomb was planted in a vehicle in the upmarket Satellite Town area and was detonated by remote control when a frontier corps patrol passed.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but security sources suggested Baluch separatists or Taliban militants could have planted the device.
The Taliban have been active around Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, while separatists have been fighting to “liberate” the province from Pakistan.
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