47 killed in blast in Pakistan's Quetta: Police

February 16, 2013 21:27

A remote-controlled bomb went off in a Shia neighbourhood in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan today, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 200, police said.

"At least 47 people have been killed and 200 more wounded; the death toll may rise. It was a remote-controlled bomb," sources quoted Wazir Khan Nasir, a top police officer in Quetta, as saying.

The explosion occurred on Kirani Road, a neighbourhood of Quetta with a sizeable Shia population that has been targeted by terrorists in the past.

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