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.

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. The truck had brought the workers to a mine in the Harnai area of Balochistan province,

Ten labourers were killed on Friday when their vehicle was hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED) in southwest Pakistan, an official said. Security forces have been battling a decades-long insurgency by separatist groups in impoverished Balochistan,