Pakistan Bomb Blast Before Key Assembly Vote Kills 3, Injures 5
A bomb planted in a bus killed three people and injured five on Sunday, hours before a nationalist tribal chieftain became the chief minister of Pakistan’s strategic Baluchistan province.
Police blamed the blast in the provincial capital, Quetta, on what they called agents of the Soviet-backed government in neighboring Afghanistan.
The bomb blew up the bus at a bus station and damaged other vehicles, witnesses said.
About three hours later, the provincial assembly elected Akbar Khan Bugti, chief of the Bugti tribe, as new chief minister. It was the first major controversy of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s two-month-old government.
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