QUETTA, Nov 25: One person was killed and 15 others injured when a bomb exploded in Khuzdar, some 335 kilometres south of here on Thursday. The powerful bomb caused loss of life and property at the Mashky Road, police said.

The bomb was packed in the frame of a bicycle parked near a shop in the main bazaar of the city and was detonated by a remote control device as the vehicle of the commandant of the Kalat Scouts, a paramilitary wing of the Frontier Corps, got near the bicycle, DIG Kalat Range Ghulam Qadir Thebo told this correspondent from Khuzdar.

"It was a remote-controlled bomb and the target was the Frontier Corps' vehicle," he said. Flying debris hit the FC vehicle and many nearby shops and buildings. The windscreen of the vehicle was smashed, injuring three personnel of Frontier Corps.

Personnel of law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the area to facilitate investigations and rescue operation. The injured were shifted to the district headquarter hospital where the condition of two of the injured was stated to be critical.

The man killed in the blast was identified as Rustam Khan, while injured included a teenaged boy Abdul Khaliq, Mehboob Ali, Ghazi Khan, Qasir Khan, Yar Khan, Amanullah, Ghulam Qadir, Ghulam Akbar, Hazoor Bakhsh, Ghulam Mohammad, Amir Alam, Haji Elahi Bakhsh, Abdul Ghani, Rahim Bakhsh and Mohammad Ramzan.

Meanwhile, a check-post of the Balochistan Reserve Police was damaged after being attacked by a hand-grenade in Killi Baro near Quetta late Thursday evening. No one was reported hurt in the attack, police sources said.