Blast kills several at pro-Palestine rally in southwest Pakistan

At least 17 people were wounded after explosives planted in a motorbike went off in the town of Chaman.

Quetta/Islamabad, Pakistan – A bomb blast has killed at least seven people at a pro-Palestinian rally in the southwestern Pakistani border town of Chaman, police and hospital officials said. The explosion took place as participants of the rally, organised by a regional religious political party, were dispersing, police official Muhammad Iqbal told Al Jazeera. “There was a rally there, and as soon as it was ending and people were dispersing that is when the blast occurred,” he said via telephone.