Quetta judge survives bomb under bridge

A roadside bomb apparently targeting a judge injured at least 13 people in Pakistan’s Quetta on Thursday. The attack comes just days after a major attack killed most of the city's senior lawyers.

“The bomb was planted on a bridge in the city, which went off immediately after the vehicle of an Islamic court judge passed by it,” Akbar Harifal, the home secretary of strife-hit Balochistan province said.

The judge, Zahoor Shehwani, survived, he added, but the blast hit his security escort vehicle, injuring four police personnel and nine passers-by.

No group immediately has claimed responsiblity for the attack, which came three days after a suicide attack at a Quetta hospital killed at least 73 people, many of them senior lawyers.