Officials said an improvised explosive device struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in the country’s southwest.

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,

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,