Bomb blast in crowded Pakistani market kills 11

ASSAILANTS set off a powerful time bomb next to an army truck parked in a teeming outdoor market in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than two dozen others.

The bomb, hidden on a bicycle, blew out windows, shredded the truck’s canvas cover and left blood and debris over a wide area of the Quetta market, said police chief Rehmat Ullah.

The dead included one soldier and 10 vendors and passersby, Pervez Bhatti, a senior police official, told Geo television. Several of the 27 injured people were in critical condition.