QUETTA, Aug 6: A suspected suicide bomber riding a bicycle was killed on Sunday in Hub, police said.

The man, aged about 25, was blown to bits while he was riding through the main market in the town of Hub 600km south of Quetta, police official Mohammad Rafiq told AFP.

No one else was injured in the blast, he said.

Initial investigations revealed that the suspect had strapped explosives on his body and it appeared he was on a suicide missions somewhere, Rafiq said.

The official said investigators were trying to establish the identity of the bomber and his possible links to any terrorist outfit in the region.—AFP

Our Staff Reporter adds from Karachi:

The post-mortem of the man who died in the Hub explosion was carried out at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. The body had been blown into pieces, except for the head, chest and shoulder, hospital sources said. The man’s face was intact and identifiable, they added.

Hub police said that the man was heading for the Hub Bazaar on a cycle when the explosives he was carrying went off.