QUETTA, May 13: A man was killed and two others were injured when a bomb exploded in a house in Dotani village of Loralai district on Thursday. Dawn

Duki Assistant Commissioner Nazar Mohammad Khaitran told that the explosive device was tied around the waist of the man who died in the explosion.

According to sources, two people identified as Nizamuddin and Mohammad Sadiq visited the house of Fateh Mohammad and said they wanted to talk to him.

Fateh Mohammad took them to a room where an explosion took place after a few minutes.

“The man carrying the bomb was blown to pieces,” said a senior police officer. He identified the deceased as Mohammad Sadiq.

The injured included Nizamuddin and Sher Afzal, a 14-year old boy. Police took the injured to the Combined Military Hospital in Loralai.

“The man killed in the blast was probably a suicide bomber,” sources said, adding that he wanted to carry out an attack somewhere else in the town but the bomb exploded prematurely.

“We are interrogating the owner of the house and the injured people,” police sources said, adding that raids were conducted in view of initial investigation.

The blast was so powerful that it blew off the roof of the room and damaged many nearby houses.

The body of Mohammad Sadiq was handed over to his relatives.

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