A bomb blast targeting a vehicle carrying coal miners in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 11 people and injured six others, local officials reported on Friday.
The truck was transporting workers to a mine in the Harnai area of Balochistan, a province where Pakistan faces a long-running separatist insurgency.
“A roadside improvised explosive device (IED) detonated as the truck carrying coal miners arrived at the site,” a paramilitary official said, adding that the device may have been remotely detonated.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Hazrat Wali Agha, the region’s deputy commissioner told Reuters that 17 miners were in the truck at the time of the explosion.
A doctor at a local hospital told the international new agency that two of the injured miners are in critical condition.
Balochistan, rich in minerals and bordering Iran and Afghanistan, has been plagued by a decade-old insurgency by ethnic Baloch separatists, with Islamist militants also active in the region.
