QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A police official says a suicide car bomber has targeted the residence of a senior police officer in southwestern Pakistan, killing his guard and wounding eight other people.
Daud Junejo says the attacker first opened fire and then blew up his explosive-laden car outside the home of Deputy Inspector-General of police Wazir Khan Nasir in the city of Quetta.
He said Nasir was slightly wounded in Thursday’s attack.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province.
It has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency by nationalists who say their movement is aimed at getting a greater share of profits from natural resources like natural gas extracted from their province.
