QUETTA: A bomb hit a passenger train in Pakistan’s restive southwest on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 17 others, officials said.

The device, apparently planted on the railway track, exploded when the train approached a station in Naseerabad district, around 250 kilometers southeast of Quetta, the capital of insurgency-hit Baluchistan province.

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