President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday strongly condemned the deadly bomb blast which occurred in Shahrang area near Harnai killing 11 miners and injuring six others.

A bomb targeting a vehicle carrying coal miners in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 11 people and wounded six others, local officials said on Friday

QUETTA/HARNAI: At least 11 labourers were killed and four others sustained multiple injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted a pickup truck carrying coalmine workers in Balochistan’s Harnai area on Friday, officials said.

The workers were on their way to a market when the vehicle carrying them was hit by an explosion. Pakistan's restive Balochistan border region has seen a surge in violence in recent years.

Authorities in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province said Friday that at least 11 coal mine workers were killed and six injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. The early morning incident occurred near a coal mine in the Harnai district of the insurgency-hit province,