QUETTA: A Frontier Corps (FC) man was killed and another was injured on Thursday in a remote-controlled bomb blast near a security forces’ vehicle in the Hazar Ganji area of Quetta.

The attack occurred when a convoy of security forces was on a routine patrol near Sharifabad Chowk.

A security official who requested anonymity told Dawn that unidentified assailants planted a remote-controlled bomb in a heap of garbage on a roadside to target the forces' convoy. "When the forces' convoy reached the spot there was huge blast," he said.

The vehicle was completely destroyed as a result of the attack.

Security forces cordoned off the area as an investigation into the incident went under way however there was no claim of the responsibility for the attack until the filing of this report.

This incident came a day after a bomb blast killed one and injured nine others in Quetta.

Militants in recent days have intensified attacks against security forces and national installations in Balochistan, plagued by an insurgency and growing sectarian killings for more than a decade.