Twin suicide blasts kill more than 20 in Quetta; no claim of responsibility

QUETTA: A senior security official was targeted by two suicide bombers near government offices killing over 20 people here on Wednesday, a police official said. However, there has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

One of the suicide bombers blew himself up in a vehicle packed with explosives near the car of the deputy head of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Balochistan, Farrukh Shehzad.

Shehzad was wounded and his wife was killed, police said.

The other suicide bomber struck inside his house. The dead included seven of Shehzad's guards. The explosions brought down the walls of his house and nearby offices.

A man drenched in blood sat dazed beside the road next to the dead body of his baby. Auto-rickshaws were ripped apart by the force of the blasts.

Copyright Reuters, 2011