[An Nahar] A kaboom on Thursday killed at least two Pak oil workers in a remote town in the country's troubled southwest that borders Afghanistan and Iran, police and doctors said.The blast hit a convoy of Pakistain's government-run Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) in the mineral rich province of Baluchistan, where rebels are fighting for autonomy and demanding a greater share of natural resources.
"We received two dead bodies and seven injured from the blast site," Siddiq Ahmed, a doctor told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone from the local district hospital in the town of Jafarabad, where the attack took place.
Police said the bomb was fixed to a
cycle of violence and parked on the roadside about 272 kilometers southeast of the picturesque provincial capital Quetta."It was a remote-controlled device which hit the oil and gas officials' vehicle," Mohammed Tariq, a senior police official, told AFP.
Baluchistan is riven by Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shiite Mohammedans and a separatist insurgency.
Baluch rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's wealth of natural resources. Hundreds of people have since died.
Separately a jacket wallah went kaboom!" in front of a vehicle of a military contractor in Kotkai village of the troubled South Wazoo tribal district bordering Afghanistan on Thursday, security officials said.