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An explosion killed five students at an Islamic school near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, police said.
"The madrasa people say that someone threw explosives into the madrasa, but we are investigating," police official Wazir Khan Nasir told Reuters.
However, another police official said the blast took place inside a room of the madrasa and its walls had fallen outwardly, suggesting there could be some explosives inside the room. "We are looking into all possibilities including the one that whether they were preparing some explosives."
Eleven students were wounded in the blast, police said.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan, a southwestern province bordering Afghanistan, where a large number of schools, or madrasas were set up in the 1980s to raise volunteers to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Ethnic Baluch militants are also struggling with Pakistani forces for more autonomy for their region.
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Map of Pakistan locating Baluchistan province
Reuters
