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A court sentenced two separatist militants to death on Thursday for carrying out a car bomb attack that killed three people and wounded 15 in Karachi in late 2005, officials said. The condemned men belonged to the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a shadowy guerrilla group fighting for a greater share of profits from resources in the province of Balochistan.
"The convicted men are brothers," said Mohammad Tariq, a police investigator, adding that two other accused were still on the run. The men can appeal against their sentence within a week.
The bomb exploded at a building housing several oil and gas exploration firms on November 15, 2005. The BLA later issued a statement saying that it had targeted Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), which runs Pakistan's largest gasfield in Balochistan. Baloch nationalists have been fighting for decades for a larger share of profits from the resources of Pakistan's biggest but poorest province. They have attacked gas, transport and infrastructure installations as well as security forces and government offices.

Copyright Reuters, 2007

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