A bomb blast Saturday killed two soldiers and wounded two others in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, officials said.
The roadside remote controlled bomb hit a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Sui town, some 450 kilometres (280 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of insurgency-hit Baluchistan.
“Two soldiers were killed and two were wounded in the bomb blast,” A senior Frontier Corps official told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Another senior government official in Quetta confirmed the incident and casualties, adding that the explosion also destroyed the vehicle.
Baluchistan is beset by Islamist militancy and sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shiite Muslims.
The province is also rife with a regional insurgency waged by separatists who rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region’s wealth of natural resources.
Bomb kills two soldiers in Balochistan: officials
