Three persons, including two policemen, were killed and 14 others injured today when a bomb attached to a bicycle went off in Quetta city in southwest Pakistan, police said.
Police said some unidentified men attached the remote-controlled bomb to a bicycle and parked it on Kawari Road in Quetta.
The bomb was detonated when the official vehicle of the police chief of Khuzdar district was passing the area.
The police official's driver and bodyguard were killed along with a local trader. The police official was not in the car, which was badly damaged.
The condition of one of the 14 injured people was described as critical.
Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and arrested 18 suspects.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but similar bombings have been blamed on Baloch nationalist militants.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in Balochistan province since an insurgency flared in the province in 2004.
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