A suspected Afghan bombmaker and four members of his family were killed when an explosive device he was building blew up in their home near Quetta, police said Tuesday. The man's wife, mother-in-law, brother and three-year-old son died in the blast on the outskirts of Quetta, province police chief Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob said.
His second wife and another son aged 13 were injured and the roof of the house collapsed after the blast, he said. Police found a timer and other material for making bombs. The suspect, Kamaluddin, an Afghan national who goes by one name, was wanted by police following intelligence reports that some saboteurs had entered Pakistan for subversive activities, Yaqoob said. Yaqoob said "foreign agents" were involved in acts of terrorism in Balochistan.
Two days ago an Afghan carrying explosives was injured when a bomb he wanted to plant in a passenger bus went off prematurely, the police chief said.
Police detained Mohammad Saeed, a resident of Afghanistan's Zabul province, who "confessed" that he had recently crossed the border to set bombs in Quetta, he said.
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