02 May 2004	Sunday	11 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

QUETTA, May 1: An bomb explosion in the Railway Housing Society rocked the provincial capital on Saturday night. "No one was injured in the explosion," police officials said and added that the bomb exploded near a house.

It was a locally-made bomb that had been planted in a drainage channel, they said. Windowpanes of many houses were smashed.

DETAINED: Security forces on Saturday arrested three Afghan army soldiers for illegally crossing the border, an administrative official of the Chaman town said.

He said that they did not posses legal travel documents at the time of their crossing into the country.

Those, who had been detained, were identified as Farhad, Abdul Khaliq and Ghulam Mohammad.

The same official told this correspondent that the detained soldiers were handed over authorities concerned for interrogation.

Sources said that the three Afghan soldiers had been arrested while they were crossing into the Pakistani side of the border using an infrequently used route.