KFC blast kills three in Pakistan

A POWERFUL car bomb exploded outside a KFC restaurant in southern Pakistan yesterday, setting off a massive fireball that overturned cars and shattered steel and glass. Three people were killed and 22 injured.

An ethnic Baluch nationalist group from southwestern Pakistan claimed responsibility. A spokesman denied the group targeted civilians, saying it tried to hit the offices of a state-owned oil and gas company above the KFC.

Chakar Azam of the Baluchistan Liberation Army said: “We did it to protest, and we did it to pressure the government to get our rights.”