Bomb hits vehicle carrying labourers in Pakistan, 10 killed

At least 10 people have been killed and others wounded after a bomb struck a vehicle carrying labourers in southwestern Pakistan.

The laborers were traveling to a market in Harnai, in the restive Balochistan province, when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, a local official, Saleem Tareen.

An improvised explosive device (IED) hit the truck when it was travelling in the Harnai area of Balochistan province on Friday, local officials said.

Security forces have been battling a decades-long rebellion by separatist groups in impoverished Balochistan, with violence in the border regions surging over the past three years.

Officials said the vehicle was carrying coal miners, and that most of the victims were from the country’s northwestern Swat Valley and other areas.

Harnai is more than 160km (100 miles) from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.