According to police, unknown suspects set off a bomb on the corner of a street near a petrol station, targeting a Frontier Corps vehicle passing by. – (File Photo)

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Suspected militants in Dera Murad Jamali, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, set off a roadside bomb that killed three people and wounded13, security officials said on Thursday.

According to police, unknown suspects set off a bomb on the corner of a street near a petrol station, targeting a Frontier Corps vehicle passing by.

The injured were taken to Civil Hospital Dera Murad Jamali where two were reported to be in critical condition.

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