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QUETTA (Pakistan) - A BOMB blast wounded 14 people, including eight security personnel on Wednesday in a remote southwestern Pakistani town, police said.
The bombing took place near a paramilitary vehicle parked outside a hospital in the town of Mastung, 35 kilometres south of Quetta, the capital of troubled Baluchistan province.
'Six paramilitary soldiers, two policemen and six civilians were injured in the bomb blast, two of them seriously,' local police official Malik Arshad said.
He said it appeared that someone had planted the bomb near the paramilitary vehicle and detonated it by remote control.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Impoverished Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been wracked by an insurgency waged by ethnic Baluch tribes seeking more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004.
The province has also been hit by attacks blamed on Taliban militants. -- AFP
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