A policeman picks up debris at the site of a blast at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, March 5, 2011. (File photo)
At least six Pakistani soldiers have been injured in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in the southwestern province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
Local officials said pro-Taliban militants had planted the bomb in a motorcycle, detonating it near a vehicle of Frontier Corps (FC) in Turbat city in Balochistan on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reports.
The incident also damaged the FC vehicle, a bank and nearby shops and houses in the area.
Pro-Taliban militants have spread their influence in various regions, killing people and security forces on an almost daily basis despite an offensive by the Pakistani government.
There has also been a surge in militant bomb attacks in Pakistan since late 2009.
Thousands of Pakistanis have been killed since Pakistan's former ruler Pervez Musharraf joined the so-called US-led war on terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
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