Motorcycle bomb kills child beggar in southwest Pakistan: police
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — An eight-year-old beggar was killed when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded at a crowded market in Quetta, Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Friday, police said.
The blast at Mannan Chowk in the city of Quetta also injured a woman and two policemen, area police official Abdul Ghafoor told AFP.
"The blast killed an eight-year-old girl and injured her beggar mother who were sitting near the motorcycle parked by some unknown man," Ghafoor said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Impoverished Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been wracked by an insurgency waged by ethnic Baluch tribes seeking more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004.
The province has also been hit by attacks blamed on Taliban militants.
