Islamabad, Pakistan

A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured 16 people on Saturday (Aug 24), police officials said.

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A powerful explosion occurred near the police headquarters in Pishin when a remote-controlled bomb, planted on a motorcycle, detonated. Seven police officers were among the injured.

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"Explosives were planted in a motorcycle which was parked in the area," said police officer Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman, adding that the two children were passing through the area when the blast occurred.

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Bomb blast in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kills five police officers

Earlier in January at least five police officers were killed and dozens of others were injured after a bomb blast hit a polio protection team in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Jan 8.

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“A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a senior government official in Bajaur district, told the news agency.

Two children killed in firing on school van in Punjab's Attock

Two children were killed in firing on a school van in Pakistan's Punjab province on Thursday (Aug 22) while six others were injured, police and officials said. 

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi denounced the attack. Attock is about 420 km north of Punjab's provincial capital Lahore but is not far away from the country's restive northwest region.

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Terrorist attacks have surged in Pakistan in recent years, mostly in the northwest bordering Afghanistan. In 2014, Pakistani militants in the worst assault on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed 147 people, including 132 children.

(With inputs from agencies)