Riots in Pakistan after dissidents found dead

Rioting has broken out in south-western Pakistan today after police said they found the dead bodies of three missing political dissidents.

Television footage showed police swinging batons to disperse protesters who set fire to a bus in the city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.

Officials say the mutilated bodies of three ethnic Baluch nationalist leaders were found before dawn today in another part of the province.

Some Baluch groups have waged a long, low-level insurgency against the central government demanding more autonomy or secession for the impoverished but resource-rich province.