Police say at least 24 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a railway station in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Dozens of others were injured in the blast, which happened as a popular morning train was about to leave Quetta station in southwestern Pakistan for Peshawar.

At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told Reuters. Pakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants in Balochistan province in the south and Islamist militants in its northwest.

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a train station in Pakistan. The bomb exploded in the southwestern city of Quetta when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to Rawalpindi.

At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 others injured as a result of a bomb explosion on Saturday, November 9, 2024. The bomb explosion occurred precisely at a train station in Quetta City in southwest Pakistan.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion is likely to fall on separatist groups that have stepped up attacks on security forces and civilians in recent months.

A powerful explosion ripped through a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, killing at least two children and wounding some others.

A powerful car bomb accidentally went off in a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two children and five suspected militants,