8-year-old boy killed, 9 injured in explosion in Pakistan

An eight-year-old boy was killed, nine others were injured after a bomb exploded in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Sunday.

According to police, the bomb was planted in a car parked on market street in Chaman town, close to the Afghan border, and was detonated by a remote control.

Eight-year-old boy who was killed in the blast was identified as Zabihullah, senior police official Habib Baluch said.

It is not yet clear who is behind the attack.

Chaman town is one of the two main crossing points for supplies for American and NATO troops fighting Taliban in Afghanistan.

Baluchistan, Pakistan's largest but least developed and most sparsely populated province, has been racked for decades by a separatist insurgency that was revived in 2004.