Nine people have been killed in a suicide attack

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle has rammed into a police truck in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, killing at least nine people, including a civilian, and wounding another 13.

Agha Samiullah, the deputy commissioner of Balochistan’s Kachhi district, the attack took place on Monday morning in Kambri Bridge area of the district, nearly 150km  east of the provincial capital of Quetta.

Samiullah said the truck was carrying 21 members of the Balochistan Constabulary, a wing of the provincial police force.

No armed group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mehmood Notezai, a senior police officer in Kachhi, said the injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Sibi. At least three people are reported to be critical and being treated at a hospital in Quetta.