At least 24 killed and more than 40 injured in horror bomb blast at Pakistan train station

AT least 24 people were killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in Pakistan.

A further 50 people were injured after the horror blast in the country’s Balochistan province, officials said on Saturday.

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People walk amid the debris after a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta, Pakistan[/caption]

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The horror blast took place on Saturday morning[/caption]

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Plain-clothed police officers survey the site following the explosion[/caption]

The attack happened when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, a senior government administrator said.

Police said about a dozen security forces are also among the dead.

TV footage showed the steel structure of the platform’s roof blown apart and a tea stall destroyed as luggage littered the place.

Ayesha Faiz, a Quetta police official, said some of the critically wounded passengers died at a hospital, raising the deaths.

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