Bomb attack kills 11, wounds dozens in Pakistan's Quetta: Police
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Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pakistani security personnel examine the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Bystanders are pictured at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pakistani security personnel (background) cordon off the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Debris and mangled vehicles are seen at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani security personnel examine the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Bystanders are pictured at the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani security personnel (background) cordon off the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta on Jan 10, 2013. A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
QUETTA (AFP) - A bomb attack killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Thursday, police said.
The target was not immediately clear, but local TV channels said the bomb detonated close to a paramilitary checkpoint in the capital of Baluchistan province, which suffers from Islamist militancy, sectarian violence and a separatist insurgency.
"According to our information, 11 people were killed and 27 injured in the blast. We will be able to tell you after some time what kind of device it was, but it was a crowded place," said Quetta police chief Mir Zubair Mehmood.
TV stations broadcast harrowing images of casualties being stretched from the scene. Heavily armed security officers were shown patrolling the site as people sifted through debris.
