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| Bomb blast, drive-by shooting kill five in Balochistan |
| 2009-09-10 |
| [Dawn] At least five people were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast and a drive-by shooting in Balochistan province on Wednesday, officials said. The bomb exploded in the small town of Soorab, some 250 kilometres south of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province that borders Iran and Afghanistan. 'An improvised explosive device which the two men were carrying with them on a motorcycle went off, killing both of them,' local police official Mohammad Sarwer told AFP. Elsewhere in the province, gunmen opened fire on tribesmen loyal to a pro-government chieftain in Dera Bugti town, killing three people and wounding three others, local police official Ashfaq Jamali told AFP. On Tuesday, gunmen on the eastern outskirts of Quetta set fire to eight trucks carrying fuel supplies for Nato forces fighting Taliban insurgents in neighbouring Afghanistan. Bomb explosions and drive-by shootings are fairly frequent in Balochistan, rife with militancy, sectarian violence and a regional insurgency. Hundreds of people have died since Baluch rebels rose up in 2004, lashing out against the central government, demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural resources. |
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