A suicide attack on a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killed three students of a military-run school on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest attack that underscores the deteriorating security situation in the region. <\/p>\n
The explosion took place in the city of Khuzdar in restive Balochistan province and targeted a school bus carrying \u201ca large number\u201d of children of military officials, according to Yasir Dashti, a senior government official from the province. <\/p>\n
38 people were wounded in the attack, Dashti said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe bus was carrying Army Public School children,\u201d said Kaleem Ullah, a police official from Khuzdar. <\/p>\n
Army Public Schools are a network of school across Pakistan for children of military staff. <\/p>\n
At least three children and two adults were killed, according to a statement from the Pakistan military. <\/p>\n
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far. <\/p>\n
Balochistan has been rocked for years by a separatist insurgency that seeks greater political autonomy and economic development in the strategically important and mineral-rich mountainous region. <\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s military accused \u201cIndian proxies\u201d of being behind the attack in a statement released shortly after the incident. It did not give evidence for its claims. <\/p>\n
Pakistan has previously accused its neighbor and arch-rival of being behind attacks in Balochistan. New Delhi has denied the accusations. <\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif \u201cstrongly condemned the cowardly attack\u201d in a statement and repeated the military\u2019s accusations that India was behind the attack. <\/p>\n
India has long accused Pakistan of sheltering militant groups that have carried out attacks across the border, including a recent massacre of tourists in India-administered Kashmir, allegations Islamabad has denied. <\/p>\n
Tensions between the two spiraled after that massacre and resulted in a brief four-day conflict earlier this month that was the most sustained fighting between the two in decades. A fragile ceasefire has held since then. <\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s attack comes just over two months after the deadly hijacking of a train by separatist militants in Balochistan. <\/p>\n
In that incident the Baloch Liberation Army took more than 350 people \u2013 some of whom were security personnel \u2013 hostage, killing 27 of them. <\/p>\n
Children have also been the target of some of Pakistan\u2019s most devastating terror attacks. <\/p>\n
At least 145 people, mostly school children, were killed in by Pakistani Taliban militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014 \u2013 the worst terror attack in the country\u2019s history. <\/p>\n
The Pakistani Taliban\u2019s most notable target was then 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was singled out and shot on October 9, 2012 as she rode to school in a van with other girls. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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