Explosion at a mosque in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, kills one and wounds more than a dozen others, officials say
File Photo: Plain-clothed security officers help a victim after gunmen attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan, December 17, 2017.
The bomb was set off remotely, said Cheema, adding that a bomb squad was dispatched to the site and was investigating. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. Local media cited an unidentified hospital official as saying that two people were killed and 15 others were wounded.There have been no claims of responsibility for the incident.
Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and poorest province which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is rife with separatist and sectarian insurgencies, even as incidents of violence have significantly dropped elsewhere in Pakistan.
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