Landmines killed a driver and a 12-year-old schoolboy in on Wednesday, officials said. The boy was walking home from school when he stepped on a landmine in Dera Bugti, a town 350 kilometres (220 miles) south-east of Quetta, and died on the spot, a security official said.
In another incident, the driver of a vehicle was killed and two passengers wounded when their car hit a landmine near a gas field in the same town, he said. Police official Wazir Khan in Dera Bugti confirmed both deaths. In a third blast, a tractor overturned after hitting a landmine in Dera Bugti district, injuring its driver, said a local police official.
Police also recovered 335 kilograms (740 pounds) of explosives from an abandoned car in Kuchlak, a town near Quetta, security officials said. "The material was to be supplied to militants in the province," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.