QUETTA, July 12: At least three people were killed and 16 others injured, five of them seriously, in a bomb explosion in the Vash Mandi area of the Afghan border district of Spin Buldak, near the Pakistan border town of Chaman, on Wednesday.

“It was a remote control bomb that went off on the main road,” a senior Afghan Police official, Abdul Hakeem Kaka told reporters and added that one of the victims of the blasts was a Pakistani and the two others Afghans. He blamed Taliban for the explosion.

According to Afghan officials the device was planted in a donkey-cart loaded with watermelons that was coming from Spin Buldak. The bomb exploded around 12.30pm. The bodies of all the three persons blew up,” an eyewitness said.

The condition of at least five injured is serious. Other injured were shifted to Kandahar. Many vehicles passing through or parked in the area were damaged that include two big trawlers