Suicide bomber kills 8 in Pakistan, over 30 injured

Islamabad. A suicide bomber on Thursday targeted a bus in Pakistan’s Quetta town, killing atleast 8 people and injured more than 30 people, officials said.
The bus, escorted by two police vans, was bringing back pilgrims from Iran.
Officials said they had received eight bodies. Two policemen were dead, while many others injured including several women, officials said.
Officials were quoted by TV news channels as saying that the bus was targeted by a suicide bomber. About 40 people were in the bus.
The site of the blast was cordoned off by security personnel.
Footage on television showed the bus was reduced to a mangled heap of blackened metal.
Later, a crane was brought in to pry apart the twisted metal so that the injured could be removed.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been blamed for a series of attacks on Shias in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan since last year.