At least six killed in southwest Pakistan school bus blast

At least six killed and dozens wounded in a blast targeting a school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan, officials say. At least six people have been killed in a blast targeting a school bus in the Khuzdar district of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, an official said. Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti said four children, the bus driver and his assistant were killed in the attack on Wednesday. “The school bus belonged to Army Public School as it was picking children in the morning when it was attacked,” he told Al Jazeera. Reporting from Islamabad, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder said Pakistan was taking the attack on the school bus “very seriously”.