At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded when a bomb planted on a motorcycle hit a police van in southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. The remote control-detonated bomb exploded in Quetta, the main town of the oil- and gas-rich Baluchistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, provincial police chief Mohsin Hassan Butt told AFP. “The target of the attack was a police van, which was parked outside a police station,” said Butt, adding that the dead included two police officers.
