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Five killed and 38 injured after suicide bombs storm school bus in Pakistan

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At least five people, including three children, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack that met a school bus in Southwest Pakistan, said officials.

The attack, the 38 other injuries, took place, according to the local deputy commissioner Yasir Iqbal, on the outskirts of the city of Khuzdar in the province of Belutschistan.

The bomb started when the school bus fought to a military school in the city.

Officials have warned that the number of fatalities could increase because several children remain in a critical condition.

Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack and called the perpetrators “beasts”, who were guilty of an action of “mere barbarism by innocent children”.

The country's military also gave a statement in which he described the bomb attack as “another cowardly and terrible attack”.

Both the army and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who will travel to Belutschistan to meet some of the injuries, have held India responsible for the bomb attacks without providing evidence.

No group immediately took responsibility for the attack, but the suspicion will probably fall on ethnic Belutsch separatists, who often aim at security forces and civilians in the region.

Pakistan and India regularly act against attacks on the other territory of the other and such allegations have increased after the recent tensions have been reinforced after a terrorist attack in India killed 26 people in Kashmir in India who triggered a short fire exchange.

Belutschistan uprising

Attacks in Belutschistan – Pakistan's most sparingly populated province – are often, in general by the insurgent group of the Belutschistan Liberation Army (BLA), which the United States referred to as a terrorist group.

Four people were killed and 20 others were injured on Sunday when a car bomb near a market in the city of Qillah Abdullah exploded in Belutschistan.

But no group has taken responsibility for this explosion.

In March, BLA -insurgents killed 33 people, most of whom were soldiers when they were aimed at a train in Belutschistan.

At the beginning of this week, the BLA swore more attacks on the “Pakistani Army and its employees” to create an independent Belutschistan.

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