QUETTA, Pakistan — A car bomb killed eight Pakistanis on Friday in the southwestern city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province, which neighbors Afghanistan and Iran, police said.
The car exploded in the front of the house of the son of a former federal minister, Naseer Mengal, causing the deaths of eight people and wounding at least 18 others, police added.
The police officials said that it was unclear whether the driver was inside the car or left it after parking.
“Eight people have been killed in the car blast, and 18 others are injured. We don’t know whether the driver was inside the car or not,” senior police official Nazir Ahmad Kurd said.
Police said that the majority of the people killed in the blast were passersby.
“We are facing difficulties to know about the nature of the blast because many of the witnesses who were present at the scene have been killed,” Kurd said.
Baluchistan is gripped by a regional insurgency for self-determination. It is also a flash point for Taliban and sectarian violence.