KABUL (PAN): At least two people have been killed in a new bomb explosion in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, bordering Afghanistan, local TV channels reported on Tuesday.

A senior police officer, the apparent target of Tuesday's attack, was among nine people wounded in the bombing in the provincial capital Quetta, reported Geo News, monitored here.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Nizam Durrani was injured by the bomb planted in a motorcycle on Spini Road, DawnNews quoted police officials as saying. The wounded were shifted to nearby hospitals.

Durrani came under assault on his way to the office. His guard and driver also suffered injuries in the roadside remote-controlled blast that occurred at 10 am. Interior Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said: "The bomb was detonated as the DIG approached his office."

TV footage showed the motorcycle was reduced to a heap of mangled metal. The windows of the police officer's jeep were blown out by the explosion that came a day after the killing of five people in a suicide bombing in Peshawar.

Also on Tuesday, Taliban insurgents destroyed a girls school in the volatile tribal region of Khyber. One media report said the school was blown up in Yousaf Kalay near Bara tehsil late Monday night.

PAN Monitor/mud