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10 killed, over 30 others injured as blast hits railway station in SW Pakistan

28 June 2012 01:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. At least 10 people were killed and over 30 others injured as a blast hit a railway station in Pakistan’s southwest city of Sibi on Wednesday night, reported local Urdu TV channel Express, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

According to the local media reports, the blast took place at about 11:00 p.m. local time when a bomb fixed under a chair on Platform 2 at the Sibi railway station went off, killing and wounding many passengers on the platform.

The killed include two children and one policemen, said the reports.

The blast happened about five minutes after a Rawalpindi-to- Quetta train carrying an estimated 250 passengers stopped at the Sibi railway station, ready to take more passengers for Quetta, capital city of Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan.

The blast took place near a tea shop on the platform when many people were around shopping, said the reports.

Police have quickly cordoned off the area after the blast. Bomb disposal squad is searching the station for other possible bombs.

All the injured have been shifted to hospitals in Sibi, a city lying some 120 kilometers southeast of Quetta.

Emergency has been declared in all the hospitals in the city. Conditions about the injured are not immediately known.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.