At least 11 people died and six others injured when a bomb targeting a vehicle carrying coal miners in southwestern Pakistan exploded. The truck was said to have brought the workers to a mine in the Harnai area of Balochistan province,

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, which is rich in natural resources.

Authorities say a roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in restive southwest Pakistan, killing nine people and wounding some others.

A devastating explosion in Balochistan's Harnai region on Friday claimed the lives of at least nine labourers and left seven others critically injured, The Express Tribune reported on Friday. The blast occurred when a bomb planted on the road detonated near a vehicle carrying coal miners.

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,