The blast on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of southwestern 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...
province, came during the morning rush hour.
"A man riding a bicycle was killed in the kaboom on the Sirki road, as eight others including two schoolchildren aged 10-12 years, were maimed in the incident," Akbar Hussain Durrani, the home secretary of the province, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The school van these children were boarding also damaged."
Durrani said that the target of the bomb, which was planted in a car, was not immediately clear but security forces patrol in the area. No security official was hurt in the kaboom.
Another senior police official, Aitezaz Goraya, also confirmed the blast and toll.
Nobody immediately grabbed credit, but Baluch separatist rebels active in the area have recently intensified attacks against security forces, ethnic minorities and outsiders.
Balochistan, Pakistain's largest but least developed and most sparsely populated province, is also racked by Islamist Lion of Islams, banditry and sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
In October the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that more than 300,000 people, including minority Shiites and Hindus, had left Balochistan over the past 10 years due to rising unrest.