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Six killed in school bus bombing in SW Pakistan

A general view shows damaged vehicles at the site a day after a bomb blast in Qila Abdullah, in Balochistan province, on May 19, 2025. [AFP]

A suspected suicide bomber targeted a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killing at least four children and two adults on Wednesday, in an attack the government accused India of backing.

The bus driver and his assistant were among those killed in the attack in Khuzdar district of Balochistan province, on the way to a school that caters to the children of army personnel and civilians living in the area.

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