A bomb targeting a vehicle carrying coal miners in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 11 people and wounded six others, local officials said on Friday.The truck had brought the workers to a mine in the Harnai area of Balochistan province, where Pakistan is battling a separatist insurgency.An improvised explosive device was planted at the road side which exploded when truck carting coal miners reached the site, a paramilitary official said.The official, who declined to be identified, added that it may have been a remote operated device.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.The regions deputy commissioner, Hazrat Wali Agha, said 17 miners were in the truck when the bomb went off.A doctor at the local hospital said two of the wounded are in critical condition.Mineral-rich Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been the scene of a decade-old insurgency by separatist ethnic Baloch groups.
Islamist militants also operate in the area.Source: Reuters--Agencies