Five killed as blast hits convoy of PML-N leader Zehri
More than 30 people were injured in the roadside blast.
QUETTA (Web Desk) - A roadside bomb struck an election convoy of Pakistan s main opposition party on Tuesday, killing five people, police and officials said, the third deadly attack on political targets in as many days.
Sanaullah Zehri, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-N in southwestern Balochistan province, was on the campaign trail for the May 11 general election when the blast hit his convoy in Khuzdar district, 350 kilometres (220 miles) south of provincial capital Quetta.
Zehri survived the attack but his son, brother, nephew and their guard were all killed, officials said.
"An improvised explosive device went off as Zehri, leading a convoy of more than 20 vehicles, left his home to campaign in Khuzdar," provincial home secretary Akbar Durrani told AFP. Local police confirmed the attack.
Bloodshed has already marred campaigning for Pakistan s historic general election, which should mark the first time a democratically elected government hands over to another after completing its five-year term.
On Monday gunmen killed two election campaigners for an independent candidate running in the lawless northwestern tribal regions, a day after a roadside bomb in the Swat valley killed a local leader of the Awami National Party (ANP).
The ANP ruled the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from 2008 until assemblies were dissolved last month for elections.
