QUETTA: A paramilitary soldier was killed and five people were injured on Thursday in a bomb blast in Sibi town, some 160km to the east of the provincial capital.

Police said that a time bomb placed on a tree at Chakar Khan road went off when a Frontier Corps patrol was passing through the area.

One FC man was killed and five others, among them three soldiers, were injured.

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The driver of the FC vehicle took all the victims to hospital where doctors declared one soldier, Mohammad Luqman, as dead.

“It was an IED [improvised explosive device] planted with a timer and detonated to target an FC patrolling vehicle when it was crossing the area,” Mohammad Anwar Khetiran, the district police officer, told Dawn, adding two of the injured were passers-by.

The wounded were identified as Mujeebullah, Mehboob Ali and Zahid Hussain of Frontier Corps and Aminullah and Mohammad Amin, civilians.

Hospital sources said two of the injured were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital, Sibi, because of their serious condition.

Security forces combed the area around the scene of the blast, however no arrest was reported.

Published in Dawn, January 2nd, 2015