QUETTA: Six people, including a tribal elder, were injured in a motorcycle bomb blast at the main chowk of Qila Saifullah town on Thursday.

According to officials, the explosion occurred near the vehicle of tribal elder Nawabzada Mehboob Khan Jogezai, which was parked in front of a shop where he was having lunch with friends. “Six people, including Mr Jogezai, were injured in the blast,” a senior police officer said.

The blast caused significant damage to the vehicle and injured a shopkeeper and several passersby.

Following the explosion, police and other law enforcement personnel reached the area and shifted the injured to the district hospital.

Hospital officials said that two of the injured, who sustained multiple injuries, were shifted to the trauma center at Civil Hospital in Quetta.

Five of the six injured have been identified as Mehboob Khan Jogezai, Raz Muhammad, Mazullah, Sultan Muhammad and Gulab Khan.

Police have registered a case against unknown people and started an investigation. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far.