QUETTA, Nov 13: Two people were killed and 15 others were injured when a bomb exploded in a market in the Samungli Housing Scheme here on Monday evening. The bomb had been planted on a bicycle in front of a fast food centre, Quetta’s Deputy Inspector General of Police Salman Syed told Dawn. The injured, two of them children, were taken to the Civil Hospital.

Police officials quoted eyewitnesses as saying that they saw a man coming to the commercial market on a bicycle at around 7pm. He went to a department store after parking the bicycle in front of the fast food centre. After some time, they said, he went to another shop and he was not seen later.

They said the bomb exploded at around 7:30pm.

Those killed were identified as nine-year-old Afghan girl Ruqayya and Irfan Ahmad Baloch. They died in the hospital.

Mohibullah, a security guard of a private company who was injured in the blast, told reporters in the hospital that the bicycle was thrown up into the air by the explosion.

The other injured were Mohammad Salman, Farman, Rehan Qureshi, Shahzeb, Mohammad Habib, Abdullah, Khuda-i-Rahim, Mohammad Zohaib, Mohammad Rohail, Mohammad Fahim, Abdul Wahab, Rozi Khan, Sabtain and Own Mohammad.