QUETTA, Pakistan - Five women were killed and six others, including two children, were wounded Tuesday when their pickup truck hit an anti-tank landmine in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.
The incident happened as a family were travelling to a nearby village at Chamalung, in Loralai district, about 310 kilometres (192 miles) southwest of Quetta, local administrator Zaffarullah Khan Luni told AFP.
"The blast killed five women and injured six others including a young girl and a boy," he said.
It was unclear whether the landmine was left over from military operations or had been planted as part of long-standing rivalries between tribes in the area of Baluchistan province.
Nationalist tribesmen have waged a revolt against the central government in the province, demanding a bigger share of the region's natural resources and jobs in state projects as well as more political rights.
Bombs and rockets targeting railway tracks, government installations and natural gas facilities have exploded regularly since the start of the year in poverty-stricken Baluchistan.
05/31/2005 14:50 GMT