QUETTA, Pakistan – Police say the son of Pakistan’s president has escaped a roadside bomb attack unharmed after the blast killed three people and wounded 15.
The attack happened late Sunday in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, long home to a low-intensity insurgency.
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Police officer Ghulam Rasool says the bomb, planted on a motorcycle and detonated by remote control, exploded in the province’s Hub industrial area as a vehicle carrying Suleman Mamnoon Hussain passed by.
Rasool says the dead and most of the wounded were pedestrians, though some police officers accompanying Hussain were wounded.
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His father, Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain, took office in September 2013. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, though Taliban extremists have been waging a long war in the country. Baluchistan separatists also have launched attacks in the province.
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