QUETTA: A convoy of Frontier Corps vehicles coming from Mastung escaped disaster as a remote-controlled bomb was detonated when it passed nearby. No casualties were reported.

Sources said that saboteurs had planted a bomb on the road in Main Ghundi area, some 25km from Quetta, and detonated it when the convoy of four vehicles was passing through the area.

Police sources said no one was hurt.

Bomb disposal personnel said it was a locally made bomb and weighed 5kg.  Some nuts and bolts were recovered from the site of the explosion.

A spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, Azad Baloch, claimed responsibility for the blast on behalf of his group.

He said that five security personnel had been killed and four others injured. He also claimed the killing of two security men in Chamalang coalmine area.

Security officials, however, denied the claims and said that no casualty took place in the remote-controlled bomb.