A bomb rigged to a motorcycle went off outside a market in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding two, police said.
The attack happened in Naseer Abad, a town about 150 kilometers (90 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, local police chief Mohammed Hussain said.
He said the wounded were taken to a hospital but provided no other details.
Such attacks are common in Baluchistan province, where nationalist groups have waged a low-level insurgency to pressure the government to get more royalties on resources _ such as natural gas _ that are extracted from their areas.
The Baluchistan unrest is separate from the Islamic militancy that Pakistan is facing along its northwestern frontier with Afghanistan.
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