QUETTA, Jan 7: Four people including two personnel of the Afghan National Army, were killed and eight others injured on Monday in a suicide attack in Vesh area of Spin Buldak, the Afghan district near Chaman.

The Afghan officials said that the police had found the head of the suicide bomber. They said the Taliban were behind the attack.

The injured include four Pakistanis who went to Vesh as they were running their business in the area, sources said. Three of them were in critical condition.

According to Afghan officials, a man riding a motorcycle hit a vehicle of the Afghan National Army at the Chaman-Kandahar highway at 12.30pm.

A powerful explosion blew up the Afghan army vehicle. Two soldiers were killed on the spot and 10 others injured.

Soon after the blast, Afghan police and personnel of the Afghan National Army reached the scene and cordoned off the area. The injured were taken to Spin Buldak Hospital, where two more persons succumbed to their injuries.

“An Afghan Army commander known as Marshal was the target of the human bomber,” Akhtar Mohammad, a border commander of Afghan police, said over telephone.

LANDMINES: Two mine workers were killed and 11 others including seven security personnel, injured in three landmine explosions in Marwar coalmine field and Tali area of Sibi on Monday.

According to police sources, a group of miners was going to Marwar area, some 100 km east of here. They said a landmine planted by unknown people exploded with a big bang, resulting in the killing of two miners on the spot.

Four other received injuries and were rushed to the Civil Hospital, Mach. “It was a home-made landmine planted in coalmine field,” police sources said.

Meanwhile, seven security personnel were injured in two other landmine explosions that took place in Tali area, close to Sibi. All injured were admitted in the CMH, Sibi.

BOMB DEFUSED: Police also foiled an attempt to blow up a power transmission line pylon, defusing four powerful bombs planted in Killi Khuda Bakhsh, a locality in the outskirts of Quetta.

According to police sources, the miscreants planted bombs at 132 KV transmission line pylon.

However, on a tip off police rushed to the site and defused all the four bombs. “These were local made 27 kg bombs,” a senior police officer, Wahid Bakhsh said and added that investigation was in progress.

FIRING ON FC: In another incident, police arrested 15 suspects in connection with a firing incident on FC personnel at spiny road by unidentified armed men, here. “One FC man had been killed and two others were injured in the attack,” police sources said. Police said investigation was in progress.