An explosion targeting a police vehicle in Pakistan’s southwestern Quetta city on Friday killed at least 11 people and injured around 20 others, officials said. The explosion occurred in front of the office of the police chief in Quetta, which is capital of mineral-rich southern Baluchistan, a province that is rife with separatist and Islamist insurgency. According to Pakistani media, “Eleven people have died… and at least 20 others are injured,” Fareed Ahmed, medical superintendent at Civil Hospital told AFP, saying the death toll had increased from five earlier in the morning. Pakistan has been battling Islamist and nationalist insurgencies in Baluchistan since 2004, with hundreds of soldiers and militants killed in the fighting.
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