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Four killed in train blast in Pakistan's resource-rich Baluchistan
Gul Yousafzai

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 10 injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting the security forces for years.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but ethnic Baluch separatists, fighting what they call the unfair exploitation of their province’s gas and other resources, have attacked trains in the past.

“Four people – a teenage girl her mother and two others were killed in the blast,” Irfan Bashir, police chief of Naseerabad district where the blast occurred, told Reuters.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-train-blast/four-killed-in-train-blast-in-pakistans-resource-rich-baluchistan-idUSKCN1QY0BP

Area where China is heavily invested, these could just be rebel-types in the main.