QUETTA, May 1: Two people were killed and 15 others, including six security personnel, injured in a car bomb attack on a Frontier Corps convoy on Sariab Road on Tuesday.

“The convoy of Bolan Scouts, a wing of the FC, was coming from Sibi and five personnel were among the injured,” a police officer told Dawn.

Mohammad Khalid, an employee of Balochistan University, and Tanveer Ahmed, 15, a student of class eight, were killed in the explosion that took place near the Irrigation Colony.

Police and FC personnel took the injured to the Civil Hospital and Combined Military Hospital. Five of the injured were in a critical condition.

Police said around 40kg of explosive in a parked car was detonated with remote control.

Pieces of the car spread over a 500-metre area, police officer Fareed Barach said.

Four rickshaws parked near the place caught fire and were gutted.

Two vehicles in the FC convoy were damaged and five personnel in them were injured. Four houses were also badly damaged by the explosion.

According to witnesses, the blast took place when the first vehicle of the convoy passed the parked car.  “The two persons who were killed were passers-by who were very close to the place,” police said, quoting the witnesses.

The injured include police constable Mohammad Karim, FC lance naiks Karam Elahi, Noor, Anar Khan, Sher Bahadur and Waheed, and civilians Noor Mohammad, Mumtaz, M. Rafiq, Mohammad Akram, Gul Mir, Mohammad Ali Zar Wali, Aminullah, Ibrar Hussain and Mohammad Raza.