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A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured at least 16 people on Saturday, police said.
The explosion occurred near the police headquarters in Pishin, a town in Balochistan province about 100km from the border with Afghanistan.
“Explosives were planted in a motorcycle,” police officer Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman said, adding that it was remotely detonated.
Two children who were passing by were killed when the blast occurred, he said.
Police suspected the blast was done by separatist Baloch factions, which have ramped up attacks on security forces and civilians in recent months, although no group claimed responsibility.
Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi mourning the loss of two innocent lives and that those responsible “do not deserve to be called humans”.
The attack in Pishin was the latest in a series of violent incidents in the region, which has long been plagued by an insurgency.
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