Summary Advisor to Balochistan CM Majid Abro, along with his guard were injured in a roadside bomb blast.
QUETTA (Dunya News/Agencies) – Back-to-back blasts on Saturday killed one and injured 11 others, including advisor to the Balochistan chief minister Majid Abro along with his guard, in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, officials said.
In first attack, an explosives-packed motorcycle detonated at a taxi stand in the Sibi district of Balochistan, killing one person and injuring nine others.
"Unknown people parked the explosive-laden motorcycle at a taxi stand in Bakhtiarabad town on (the) main Sibi-Jacobabad national highway," Mohammad Akhtar, a local administration official, said.
In the second attack, in the Balochistan provincial capital of Quetta, Abdul Majid Abro received minor injuries along with one of his colleagues.
According to bomb disposal squad official, four kilogrammes of explosives were used in that blast, detonated by remote control.
So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Oil- and gas-rich Balochistan has been badly hit by sectarian violence, mainly targeting Shiite Muslims from the Hazara ethnic community.
