A bomb exploded on a railway track in Balochistan on Monday, damaging a portion of the railroad, but causing no injuries, police said. The explosion blew up nearly a metre of the track near a railway station in Mach, a Railways Police official Naeem Kakar said. No trains were disrupted and Kakar said the damaged line would be repaired before any train is scheduled to travel over it. No one claimed responsibility, but authorities have blamed local tribesmen for bombings targeting railroads in Balochistan in the past.Assailants also fired rockets at a paramilitary post and nine homemade bombs exploded in separate attacks in the province on Sunday, injuring two people, police said. Five of the blasts occurred in Quetta, including one bomb that was strapped to a bicycle, Quetta police official Pervez Zahoor said. The bicycle bomb exploded near a power grid station operated by the Water and Power Development Authority in the Sariab Road neighbourhood. A policeman and an employee at the power station were injured, Zahoor said. Both men only suffered minor injuries. Earlier on Sunday, another bomb exploded in a western residential neighbourhood in Quetta, shattering the windows of several homes, Zahoor said.
Four other explosions occurred in two towns, but there were no reports of injuries. Two blasts occurred in Mach. One was in a garbage bin near the town’s railway station and the other close to a wall of a police station, shattering the police station’s windows, Mach police official Muhammad Khan Marri said.