From Pakistan, CEOAFRICA.com gathered that more than seven people died after a bomb hit a passenger train in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

Sources disclosed that the blast hit the train as it was travelling through the Notal area in the Nasir Abad District, leaving all traffic on that route shut down and local reports said the impact of the blast left a large crater at the site.

No group has said it carried out the attack on the Jaffar Abad Express.

Police said officers were still at the scene investigating the incident and that the injured were taken to the Dera Murad Jamali hospital.