kaboom!on Friday evening.
The proscribed Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Liberation Army has grabbed credit for the attack.
The powerful blast was heard far and wide. It smashed windows of several buildings.
At least six vehicles parked in the area and 10 nearby houses caught fire after the kaboom and were destroyed.
"Unknown men put the kaboom into a vehicle and parked it near the house of former state minister Mir Naseer Mengal," DIG Operation Nazir Ahmed Kurd said, adding that the kaboom occurred at around 7pm.
He said 13 people had been killed and another 30 injured who were in hospitals.
Intelligence sources put the number of the dead at 15. Seven of the dead are said to be the guards of Shafique Mengal, son of Naseer Mengal.
Security officials were of the view that Shafique Mengal might have been the target of the attack.
DIG Investigation Hamid Shakeel told Dawn that about 40-50kg of kaboom had been used for the blast.
He said that kaboom had also been planted in another vehicle, parked near the house, adding that the bomb disposal squad defused it.
The injured were taken to the Bolan Medical College hospital and Civil Hospital.
According to doctors, six of the injured were at death's door. Some of the injured were identified as Abdul Qudoos, Qadeer Mola Bakhsh, Gul Muhammad, Muhammad Rafeeq, Abdul, Khalid Khan, Karam Khan, Abdul Hameed, Faisal Khan, Dost Muhammad, Musawwar Khan, Abdullah Khan, Amanullah, Afzal Khan, Lal Muhammad, Javed Ahmed, Abdul Rasheed, Fazal Kareem, Muhammad Yunus and Abdul Kareem.
According to sources, Shafique Mengal had returned to Quetta from his native Khuzdar district about an hour before the blast and was in the house.
His guards started firing in the air after the blast. They allegedly manhandled some journalists who were there to cover the incident.
Law-enforcement personnel cordoned off the area and started investigation.
Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani condemned the blast and ordered an immediate inquiry.
Claiming responsibility for the attack, BLA front man Meerik Baloch told news hounds on phone that it was a suicide kaboom carried out by Darwaish Baloch who he said was a member of their Majeed Shaheed Brigade.
AFP adds: Police said the majority of the dead were passersby making it even harder to piece together what happened.
"We are facing difficulties to know about the nature of the blast because many of the witnesses who were present at the scene have been killed," said DIG Kurd.