June 15, 2013 04:38 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:39 pm IST - Islamabad
11 students were killed and more than 17 wounded on Saturday when a bomb went off in their bus in the South-western Pakistani province of Balochistan, police said.
The blast took place as the students were getting on the bus at the Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University in the provincial capital of Quetta, said police officer Atique Khan.
He added that preliminary investigations revealed that the explosive material was planted inside the bus.
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