QUETTA, Jan 4: Five children were injured, four of them seriously, after a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a school bus carrying children of Frontier Corps personnel in Turbat town on Tuesday.

Police sources said the bus, carrying around 32 children to FC Public School in Turbat, was targeted near Atta Shah Government Degree College. The vehicle was damaged badly in the blast.

Soon after the explosion, police and FC personnel reached the spot and shifted the children to Civil Hospital, Turbat.

Sources said the five injured students were admitted to hospital.

“The condition of four children is serious,” the sources said. “Unknown people had planted a home-made bomb at the roadside and detonated it with remote-control when the bus came close to it,” an FC official said.—Staff Reporter