QUETTA: Bomb attacks in Quetta and South Waziristan on Wednesday left 10 people including five soldiers dead and at least 18 others wounded, officials said.
A powerful bicycle bomb exploded in a crowded car repair market in Quetta at around sunset, killing at least five people and wounding 17.
Earlier in the day five soldiers were killed in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border when a roadside bomb went off. Two soldiers died at the scene while three of the four others seriously wounded later succumbed to their injuries.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for either attack.
"Number of martyred soldiers due to IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attack in South Waziristan has risen up to five," a senior security official told AFP.
Homemade roadside bombs are a major weapon for militants who attack government forces Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal districts bordering Afghanistan.
A hospital official in Quetta, confirmed the death toll from the bicycle bomb attack.
"We have received five dead bodies and 17 injured people from the blast site," Rasheed Jamali, a doctor at Quetta's civil hospital, told AFP.
The city's Bomb Disposal Squad said the explosive device planted in the bicycle was remote-controlled.
"Up to seven kilogrammes of explosives were packed in a remote control bomb planted on a bicycle in the auto repair market," Abdul Razaq, a senior official from the squad, told AFP.
Police in Quetta however have not identified a target for the attack.
"Apparently, the bomb was planted in a bicycle parked in the market. We are not aware of any specific target of this attack," Azhar Shah, a senior police official, told AFP.
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