Car bombs kills 33 in two Pak towns

At least 33 people were killed in two separate car bomb blasts in southern and northern Pakistan on Thursday.

Islamabad, July 19 : At least 33 people were killed in two separate car bomb blasts in southern and northern Pakistan on Thursday.

In the first incident, 26 people,including seven people were killed in a crowded market place in the southern industrial town of Hub by a car bomber.

The suicide bomber, targetting a vehicle carrying Chinese workers involved in mining activities, rammed into a police van that was escorting them.

Hub lies on the border of Baluchistan and Sindh provinces. It is unclear whether the attack is a fallout of the Islamist militant backlash that followed the storming of Islamabad's Lal Masjid last week, or was linked to a long-running separatist movement in Baluchistan. In the second bombing incident, a car bomber blew himself up at a police training centre in the city of Hangu in northern Pakistan, killing at least seven people, including a policemen.

The bomber tried to enter the building just as young recruits were starting training.

According to witnesses, the attacker tried to crash through the gates but blew himself up as security guards tried to stop him.

Hangu has a history of sectarian violence and is close to Pakistan's lawless tribal regions on the Afghan border.

ANI